FISHERMEN IN THE NIGHT - ANTONIO CANNATA

A self-taught painter, he made his debut in 1920 in Naples, where he had moved and where he achieved widespread popularity, quickly becoming immersed in the city's artistic culture. Over the course of his career, he participated in three Venice Biennales (1930 - with Fondaco rustico, headquarters of the Bank of Naples; 1934 - with two pastels; 1936 - with a painting) and held many solo exhibitions in numerous Italian cities: 1928, Rome - Associazione Calabrese, with fifty works; 1932, Reggio Calabria - with thirty-one works, including Marina di Ostia, Rustic Calabrian Houses, Pagliaia della Piana, Lake Como, Cortile di Caivano; early 1930s, Naples - Compagnia degli Illusi, with a catalogue introduction by Salvatore Di Giacomo; 1933, Catanzaro - Town Hall Hall (10th Exhibition of the painter AC), with thirty works, including Clouds on the Aspromonte, Calabrian Farmyard, Mountains of Cittanova, Arch of Titus, Buffalo Valley (Sila), Rustic Houses of Polistena, The Dolomites, Mount S. Elia (Palmi), Mountains of Cittanova, Anoia seen from Polistena, Via del Ponte Vecchio, Sunset on Lake Patria, with a catalogue containing critical opinions by Francesco Jerace, Vincenzo Gemito (“This is how I express myself on your works: sensitive and loving pastels for what is produced in our era”); 1934, Cosenza - New headquarters of the Cosenza Academy (11th Exhibition of the painter AC, dedicated to Michele Bianchi), with forty-four works, including Sunset in the Sila Piccola, Aspects of the Ampollino, Vesuvius, A Street in Polistena, The Castle of San Giorgio Morgeto, Flowering Meadow Venice, Marina di Pozzuali (sic), Naples Botanical Garden, Fruit, In the Villa in Catanzaro, Pond, Old Vine, Fish, and Spring. He also exhibited abroad, in Paris, New York, and Brussels, always achieving success thanks to the high quality of his painting, always linked to the simplest motifs of romantic life and thanks above all to the elegant, soft, sweet color. In 1932, the artist's studio on Via Foria in Naples was visited by the poet Libero Bovio, who wrote the following about Cannata's art: "This painter is an ancient artist, but he has a modern sensibility. He was present at the 2nd Polistena Art Exhibition in 1955 with two Landscapes. Some of his works are in the Palmi Museum and in the Polistena Town Hall. The pastel Case del Calvario was purchased by the national government for the Gallery of Modern Art in Rome. Numerous works are in private collections, especially in Calabria and Rome.

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