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Pinacoteca Civica "F. Podesti" - Audioguide - Corrado Cagli, Buglione

Corrado Cagli's artistic personality is very versatile in styles and suggestions, with a mastery in the most diverse fields of artistic expression, as you can see through his three works in this room. From painting to sculpture, from ceramics to theater, his research led him to be considered one of the most significant personalities of the Italian artistic panorama between the 1920s and 1930s, both in Europe and America, contributing to the birth of the Roman art school. A masterpiece of Cagli's art, from the 1930s, is the beautiful portrait of Mirko, a young friend of the artist, who casually plays with an ancient musical instrument. It is a painting of intense sensuality and melancholy, which is performed with a lyrical and loose painting, in a crepuscular chromatism. In the same room, you can see "The Apprentice", from 1946: the figure disintegrates and falls apart almost as if worn out by time. The use of masonite as a support favors the fading of the figure. The elliptical rotations of the lines break the stillness of the figure and create the echo of an action that took place in a different time from the instant caught in the painting. In the artwork “Buglione”, on the other hand, which was painted in the 1970s, the painter recalls the concept of abstract figuration, made up of modular and mathematical repetitions, of corpuscles that challenge the two-dimensionality of the painting: the geometric structures extend into space in a continuous game of concave and convex, giving us the illusion of a three-dimensional figure. The circles that make up the figure refer to the hauberk, a metal mesh, which of course was the characteristic equipment of medieval warriors. The name of the work, in fact, evokes the legendary figure of Godfrey of Bouillon, a fundamental character of the first crusade, protagonist of “Jerusalem Delivered” by Torquato Tasso.