Tano Festa, Italian Landscape, acrylic on canvas, 80x70 cm,1985-86

Between the 1970s and the 1980s, Tano Festa produced a series of paintings that share technical details of execution. In fact, in re-proposing quotations from past works, Festa experimented with a new technique in which the figures are always projected onto the canvas, but are reproduced in a fragmented manner, increasingly losing the link with the original work.

One example is certainly this painting. It is a 1985-86 canvas, prepared with very vivid acrylic colours, which can be red, green, blue, but also black, and in this case it is precisely black that forms the background to the painting.

In the centre outlined by two wavy green borders are two abstract brown figures surrounded by tiny white dots. The work is signed on the back.