Subject: country landscape
Support and technique: watercolour
on cardboard
Author: Gaetano Pancaldi (Piumazzo di Castelfranco Emilia, 1922-2014).
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representation of nature and everyday life were among the
favorite subjects of the artist who was very active and well-known
in the Modena area due to his activity as a poster designer for the
Communist Party of Modena and the numerous exhibitions held. Painter
tireless, Pancaldi has worked with unchanged until recent years
passion.
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Period: 60s/70s
Origin: Emilia Romagna
Condition: excellent
Measurements: 38 x 26 cm
Gaetano
Pancaldi is a poet of microcosms, of distant and now worlds
forgotten, of peasant and village atmospheres relived with naivety and
sincere passion, with eyes full of wonder and curiosity
children of the past. He brings back to life the rites of the countryside, the
patient work of the oxen, the timeless gestures of the farmers and the
housewives, the rustic and welcoming environments in which the foods had
unrepeatable flavors and stories were born to become proverbs and
nursery rhymes to be passed on for the ages.
Paintings in which the colors and the
lights rediscover the clarity of distant springs, the joy of flights
of swallows and the songs of the reapers, atmospheres in which to fall
snow at Christmas or roses blooming in May were magical events
they were long desired as if they were happening for the first time. For
against him he tried to make the hysteria of the contemporary world,
without joy and without wonder, where the rhythm of actions is programmed
in places foreign to man and his nature, unnatural, therefore, and
almost cruel. The contrast is dramatic, the effect impressive too
if more technical and, so to speak, forced.
The true inspiration of
Pancaldi is the lost world of processions and threshing, of
stables and threshing floors shining with golden chaff, with the chicks that follow
the hens along the rows tilled by the toil of the spade and the
hoe. There is the sense of the harshest fatigue, in his paintings, and of
simplest and purest joy.
(Valerio Massimo Manfredi)
