The House Museum of Luciano Ventrone, the Caravaggio of the 20th century, will soon open to the public for the first time

The House Museum of Luciano Ventrone (Rome, 1942 - Collelongo, 2021) will open in Collelongo, in the province of L’Aquila, thanks to the Luciano Ventrone Foundation and Miranda Gibilisco. The studio house has never been open to the public, but soon it will be possible to access it for the first time to learn about previously unseen masterpieces and the enormous legacy of the painter considered the Caravaggio of the 20th century, who died just a year ago.

Born in Rome in 1942, he began his artistic activity in the 1960s as a classical figurative artist and then moved on to geometric experiments, informal and programmed art, but it was thanks to the interest of Federico Zeri that he began to execute still lifes. Ventrone managed to amaze Zeri with his virtuosity and the anatomical perfection of his fruits and flowers, so much so that it was the famous critic who called him the last heir of Caravaggio.

Starting with photography and working directly on it, Ventrone captures those details not visible to the human eye that create wonder in the viewer. His choice of subjects links him to great painters of the past, but his attention to the application of paint, color and light place him among the great contemporary artists. His still lifes are hyperrealistic and illusionistic representations not of the subjects themselves, but of a neo-platonic idea-form, leading the viewer to reflect on the dualism between reality and appearance.

Image: Luciano Ventrone, Fantastic Dialogue (80 x 100 cm)

The House Museum of Luciano Ventrone, the Caravaggio of the 20th century, will soon open to the public for the first time

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