Picture – Francesco De Grandi

SHORT DESCRIPTION:

This work of Francesco De Grandi is untitled. Francesco De Grandi (Palermo, 1968) is considered one of the most interesting and original authors of the Italian art scene. In his realistic painting blend visual memories, literary suggestions which coexist in an Arcadian dimension. The settings, almost always natural, are wooded landscapes, rocks, skies that refer to a rarefied and suspended time.

In the painting there are some evanescent figures while crossing a metaphysical projecting the viewer into an ancestral and enchanted condition. In the painting there is a row of ghosts which escape riding strange creatures by a fire in the distance – perhaps a secret reference to the iconography of the Triumph of Death of the Abatellis Palace in Palermo.

The lysergic colours and the gloomy atmosphere portray the story of an apocalyptic end, a tale in which the De Grandi passion for the storytelling blends with the delicate pictorial quality of the natural details, painted with a Flemish care and a veristic attention.