Cagnaccio di San Pietro

Cagnaccio di San Pietro (Desenzano, 1897-Venice, 1946)

The artist changed his given name of Natale Scarpa Bentivoglio to his non de plume of Cagnaccio di San Pietro, in honor of the island of the lagoon, San Pietro in Volta.

He lived the most productive years of his art career surrounded by local fishermen and regular people.

Cag learned painting from Ettore Tito at the Academy of Venice. He later broke away from the teachings of the teacher and was part of the Futurist movement for some time. He then came to the sculptural and formal incisiveness that sets his work apart from other Venetian artists of his contemporaries.

Cagnaccio di San Pietro soon decided to break away from the Venetian tradition of pictorialism.

He first approached sculpture and then sought the solidity of mass and volume in the Futurist processes. He ultimately found the path best suited to his painting through the culture spread by Felice Casorati in Veneto and Verona in a definition that was increasingly precisely drawn and shaded definition of the figure and the portrait.

Cagnaccio delineates the sculptural form with clarity with an energy that verges on surreal hallucinations,  using color that is usually hard and glass-like, suggesting the Murano painters of the 15th century.

This original line of inquiry combines with the study of abstract light, sometimes sidereal, which often tends to transfiguration though still rooted in reality, which he achieved through an impassioned meditation on the purity of forms.

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