House in the Wind

Vincnzo Schiavio: a mountain landscape painter certainly, but not only that. The mountains were his special
place throughout his life, objects of conquest as a skilled climber, but also subjects of silent contemplation. Until the 1940s his predilection for peaks reproduced using the Divisionist technique dominated his work. Pursuing his commitment to honouring nature by trying to interpret it realistically he then left the mountain tops behind him to descend into the valleys, painting familiar landscapes, lake views, country scenes and once again mountains but this time seen from below. The last phase of the artist’s incessant, at times tormented quest, is documented in this oil paintings, in which paint was applied in compact surfaces, without force. He was achieving a simplicity of formal layout and a greater serenity of conception, which an implacable illness unfortunately did not give him the time to develop further.(A. Longatti)