Tono Zancaro - Untitled

The urban landscape was already a popular subject in the Middle Ages and the Modern Era, but predominantly in an idealized manner. Scenes of city life became typical themes with a more realistic interpretation starting in the 19th century. It's worth remembering how, immediately following the realist movements of the 19th century, the Impressionists also placed great emphasis on the everyday, on everyday life, with a certain predilection, however, for the frenetic pace of the city, its crowds, traffic, and typically bourgeois settings.

The print beautifully reflects Tono Zancanaro's artistic vision. The world presents itself as a reality to be playfully transfigured in drawing. Zancanaro's entire style hinges on drawing, and here too, a decisive and confident stroke delineates shapes and volumes. But he always does so in a slightly lopsided, dreamy manner that transforms reality into an imaginative game. All this is combined with the balance of a spatial box constructed on an impeccable, excessively rational perspective that, by contrast, further accentuates the transition from reality to fantasy.

Antonio Zancanaro (Padua 1906-1985), known as Tono, began painting only in 1932, after abandoning a promising sports career. He was self-taught, having trained in the Florentine anti-fascist movement with Ottone Rosai. His work primarily focuses on the humblest social situations, but always with a vein of fantasy, brought about by his lively, caricatural drawings.

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