Roberto Sguanci - Youth

Surrealist aesthetics emerged around the 1920s and encompassed all areas of artistic exploration. In terms of a discourse more properly related to the visual arts, surrealism is defined by the desire to explore the human subconscious and channel it into the artwork through a process of automatic writing based on dream analysis. Consequently, surrealist artworks present a dreamlike dimension completely dissociated from reality. However, such representation often relies on a formal rendering that is hyperrealistic, precisely to accentuate, paradoxically, the illusory and ambiguous nature of the surreal dimension.

Although the composition draws on a surrealist aesthetic, it is designed to convey an allegorical meaning. The ironic, playful interpretation of the subject is also reflected in the technical execution, typical of the painter Roberto Sguanci. The images, all constructed with a cartoon-like drawing style, are rendered with pronounced plasticity. Their volumes are glossy and do not interact with the surrounding space. The color palette is vibrant, based on bright tones. All these characteristics lend the work an air of elaborate artifice.

Roberto Sguanci is an artist born in Florence in 1948. A painter, poet, and writer, his work focuses on a hyperrealistic language with accentuated plasticity or on more ironic compositions with paradoxical and allegorical content.

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