Mixed media on paper depicting still life of fruit and bottles. Cm 50x70. In frame 73x93 cm. Signed on the lower ...

Mixed media on paper depicting still life of fruit and bottles. Cm 50x70. In frame 73x93 cm. Signed on the lower right Santacroce.
Antonio Santacroce (Rosolini 1945) is a painter, sculptor, engraver and designer originally from Sicily. Also, it is the first one in eastern Sicily engages nell'acquetinte on a Brisse press. It travels a lot, particularly in Switzerland, where in 1989 he has taught at the Zurich Art School. His career is marked by numerous awards and various exhibitions.
The work of Santacroce moves between two poles, one of the classical and the more experimental painters known in Switzerland, such as Klee and Kandinsky and is characterized by a continuous tension between dream and reality due to the alternating of figures drawn from myths and legends Mediterranean personally interpreted by means of an elegant sign that leads to a continuous figuration allusive. In the work in question, signed and dated on the 2006, it contains the characteristic evolution of his technique. What it may be recognizable as a still life is transformed through the use of unreal colors and the use of a scratchy painting. But the talent that made him famous Santacroce, and here is obvious, is its constant drive towards experimentation but does not indulge never totally the loss of the object, but remains faithful to an initial intention to clear figuration. The defined contours are destroyed in favor of a representation that is "formless and formlessness form that form" as it is said by Vincenzo Consolo in its volume dedicated to the work of Santacroce.

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