Nino Gasparri Biography
Nino Gasparri (1910 – 1989) Currently known internationally, the painter Gasparri developed his own formal research even before coming into contact with the Roman environment. After his youthful exercises in landscapes of post-impressionist taste, in which the Emilian and Bolognese tradition was overcome, he opened his own artistic program open to innovations and sensitive to European cultures. Thus he advances, with the masters Carena, Romagnoli and Morandi, in the study of the figure. Gasparri approached still lifes at a very young age and, despite that inclination towards color which still brings us back to Romagnoli and Morandi, he already identified his own path and a personal expressive formula. Subsequently, in the other still lifes painted between the fifties and sixties, the chromatic registers of the new Roman realism are superimposed on the Emilian system, with Cézannian references: the objects, like the figures, are part of that biographical density which is the specific world and way of painting for Gasparri. In the central years of his activity, the tests of standing portraits prevail, the exercise on the nude, the study carried out on the figure, which involves the modeling of the color and the accentuation of the lights in the short space where the psychology of the portrayed subject is drawn. The investigation into the destiny of men becomes increasingly more pressing for the author. The painter senses something different, more complex: desperation is the same part of the history of men, it is not just the result of capitalist or neo-capitalist society. The sense of drama takes on a choral resonance and Gasparri lucidly pursues the symphony of human desperation. In fact, even the landscapes of maturity represent the last pauses before cosmic suffering, which emerges in the nudes as an internal feeling referring to the human condition.
