Day in the city

Day in the city is an original etching realized by Luigi Bartolini in 1970s. 

City landscape in the background and table with chairs in the foreground.

Edition 3/50.

Handsigned in the lower right part.

39x46 cm with frame. 

Good conditions.

Luigi Bartolini (1963) deepened his skills as a sketcher on the one hand with a wise and unscrupulous taste for satire, and on the other those of a polemicist, with a commitment that permeates all his writings under various forms and in various directions. Thus,

if the poet always moves between an open enjoyment of nature in all its manifestations and an anxious, but also disenchanted, participation in the life of things and men. against the backdrop of aconstant, naive self-aggrandisement, the prose writer seems to

want to try all avenues: from the novel in which amusement sometimes gives way to social resentment (Bicycle Thieves, 1946, hence the film by V. De Sica), to the bitter and smiling humanexperimentation (Girl fallen in the city, 1946; the stories of Beloved

after, 1949; the fifty-eight prose of Signora malata di cuore, 1954) to the immediately detectable art prose (Three prose d'arte, 1957) or skilfully disguised (Il mezzano Alipio, 1951), at thesame time realistic and allegorical pastiche (Il mazzetto, 1959).

is a series of creations or, sometimes, tests in which, alongside a very personal taste for language, a persistent impressionistic tone is revealed, a continuous oscillation between reality and avocation for the surreal and, always, an ability to open up to the most

vast stylistic registers, which is both the privilege and the limit of Bartolini's work. Until his death, B. continued to combine his literary activity with that of a painter and, above all, a graphicdesigner (etchings, lithographs, drawings, etc.).

Important exhibitions of his works were held in Rome, at the National Chalcography (1962) and at the 1965 Quadriennale, and in Venice at the 1962 Biennale.