Mario Sironi. Dipinti

Mario Sironi (1885-1961), giant of modern painting who ranged from painting to sculpture, from advertising graphics to staging, from wall paintings to architectonic works, certainly the artist who, in the last century, principally embodied the philosophical conception of modernity. Steering clear of academic rhetoric, gifted with an extraordinary emotional charge, Sironi spoke to whoever stood before his art free of prejudices in a clear and direct way, thanks to his unique palette's incessant dialectic of light and shadow, black and white, brown and ochre, always succeeding in making himself understood. The paintings reproduced here, meticulously and systematically chosen by Claudia Gian Ferrari represent, with the exception of the futurist period, his entire artistic career; from his extraordinary urban landscapes to his monumental figures of the late Twenties, from his compositions of the Thirties, born at the same time as his great wall painting project, up to the explosions of elaborate multiple compositions of the Forties and Fifties.