Le Amiche II (1984) Painting by Aristide Gattavecchia

Aristide Gattavecchia was a painter and sculptor of the 1900s, obtaining important recognitions in both artistic forms (the most relevant was the "Silver Dragon" International Prize for Sculpture obtained in 1963).
Its production goes from 1947 to 1994.
He dealt with powerful themes such as that of violence (of war), incommunicability and loneliness.
And again the themes of a society that changes rapidly and does not know how to deal with and organize mutations appropriately: ecology, savings, consumerism.
And finally, more current content than ever, such as homosexuality and discrimination.
He investigated the human soul, pushing himself to raw and more intimate observation.
Aristide Gattavecchia has made existentialism his most distinctive reason for being.
An investigation into man, which goes beyond the phenomenological aspects to delve into a deeper knowledge of the subject.
A knowledge aimed at his most hidden world, at the very reasons of his existence. For this reason his works fluctuate in a surreal dimension which is nothing but pure subconscious.
Gattavecchia's subjects live in a decontextualized space, they are trembling bodies emptied of any physiognomic characteristic, of any plastic value.
The one described by the painter from Cesena seems to be a situation of existential solitude, an impossibility of communication and sharing, a state of being for which Gattavecchia has found an extraordinarily empathic and eloquent formal guise.

• Nationality: ITALY
• Date of birth : 1907
• Artistic domains: Works by artists with a certified artist value,
• Groups: Certified Artists Contemporary Italian Artists