Ugo Davila - Wheat and Corn

The "Still Life" genre emerged in the early 17th century. It consisted of compositions of inanimate subjects, most often flowers or fruit. While initially it was an opportunity for painters to experiment with naturalistic or photographic reproductions of reality, with contemporary art, the "Still Life" also became a way of interpreting reality. Indeed, as happened, for example, in the Cubist avant-garde or in Giorgio Morandi, the in-depth exploration of objects was aimed at a conceptual representation, taken beyond the mere sensory aspect.

In this painting, artist Ugo Davila demonstrates how his pictorial language is always geared toward faithfully transposing reality onto the surface of the work. His primary interest in still life is in the plastic, modeled, and textured qualities, which are softened by a subtle painterly quality, just enough to blend into the atmosphere. Otherwise, the subject stands out clearly, with an almost hyperrealistic clarity. Indeed, we see a desire to objectively convey onto the canvas, with cold lucidity, the sensory data the painter has before his eyes. The description of the objects and the space that accommodates them is extremely detailed and concrete. The light, as in a Flemish work, expands freely, making the surfaces glisten with reflections.

Artist Ugo Davila is a painter who focuses primarily on classical and traditional genres such as still life, dividing his poetics between a lyrical vision of phenomenal reality and an exploration of plasticity. His painting is essentially realist, based on an excellent technique that allows him to faithfully convey sensory information into the painting.

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