Ninetto Camattini

The bronze mask portrays Ninetto Camattini (Parma 1902-1987), related to Luigi Froni by a deep friendship and owner of the Art Gallery which allowed the sculptor to exhibit his works, with a kind expression. The work belongs to Froni's new field of investigation, which is expressed through the creation of a series of "masks", among his most original works. They are in fact rich and complex works, and not grotesque caricatures, since they were precisely defined: they are his personal reflection on man, on incommunicability, on the profound and unknown being of each individual. Froni's masks are generally born after a portrait, they are nothing more than "further deepening, a digging deeper into the subject, a pursuit, by the artist, in the region of the unknowable, of what is also hidden from the model" .