Martino Delego - A very orange figure ...

Surrealist aesthetics emerged around the 1920s and encompassed all fields of artistic research. Specifically, in the visual arts, surrealism sought to explore the human subconscious and translate it into artwork through a mechanical writing process based on dream analysis. Consequently, surrealist artworks propose the representation of a dreamlike dimension, completely dissociated from reality. However, this representation often relies on a hyperrealistic formal rendering, precisely to paradoxically accentuate the illusory and ambiguous nature of the surreal dimension.

The work fully demonstrates all the distinctive features of the Surrealist aesthetic adopted by painter Martino Delego. The mechanical writing process, in his case, generates mechanomorphic creatures, assembled beings resembling a tangle of limbs mixed with tools and other mechanical devices. The creatures occupy the entire scene, lending it a chaotic, swirling dynamism. This is further emphasized by Delego's style, which, rather than the hyperrealism typical of historical surrealists, leans toward a synthesizing, almost animation-like technique. There is a certain reminiscence of Giannini and Luzzati's drawings inspired by a fanciful Middle Ages: the same two-dimensionality and the same colorful synthesizer. Indeed, color is another hallmark of Delego's Surrealism. Using a wax technique, the painter completely immerses his compositions in vibrant colors, yet with iridescent, atmospheric hues.

Martino Delego is a Genoese painter born in 1956. Trained in the studio of the master Kodra, he has exhibited his work in numerous shows in Italy. Very active in the Brera art scene, the artist lives and works in Milan. His entire artistic research is oriented toward an exuberant and colorful surrealism, with a sarcastic tone and full of ironic allusions.

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