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| The Earths: Late 1960s / Early 1970s |
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Lucatello already discovers the charm,
the meaning and the tactility of earth whilst he is living in
Venice. He discovers it in the black and dense marshes of the
Po delta during his stays in the lower Po valley and, more or
less in the same period, also in the damp and lumpy clods of
earth in the vegetable gardens at Portosecco. His earths are
seen with realism, both when they are a comprehensive vision,
just like certain “deltas”, and also when he scrutinises
them to the microscopic detail of the undergrowth. However,
when looking at these earths, it must never be forgotten that
man is the protagonist of these pictures. In brief, in these
pictures, where there is never a human figure, Lucatello wants
to depict humanity.
The earths gathered on this page were painted between the late
1960s and the beginning of the 1970s. They are certainly not
uniform because they move between different ‘periods’
and frames of mind, and in future years, the theme returns,
much loved and constant. From this meagre selection we can take
an example: brown earth, a monochrome picture that may seem
difficult to interpret. The dark earth is interrupted by a lump
of colour, which occupies the space with crucial geometric precision
and provokes an almost mystic sensation of suspense. Searching
the earth in the field or in the wood, the eye seizes the detail
which has been defined and expanded. |
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