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| The vegetable gardens at Portosecco; the earths,
the teapots. |
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Late 1950s: the vegetable gardens
and the teapots.
In 1958 Lucatello spends his entire summer at Portosecco, where
thriving vegetable gardens were situated on a strip on land
that lied between the Venice lagoon and the sea. A sea which
he never paints, as his interest is the earth; fat, solid clods
of black, damp earth where colourful vegetables sprouted.
Above, the sky is painted according to the time of day; white
or yellow, rarely light blue, because blue is often a colour
which hides another colour, a truer light. In some cases the
earths divide the picture in half, horizontally. Above is the
sky, or in other cases the earth, which covers the whole picture,
just leaving space for a pond flooded with light in a lower
corner. Earths painted with clots of colour which protrude and
run, to continue the subject of the Delta, the study of reality
confined to a detail. The teapots that he painted in 1959 seem
an eccentricity, suspended above the earth, they are intended
to indicate the evidence of the objective reality. |
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