Who’s next?… Mario Reviglione

by Valentina Biondini, art and literature amateur

Intermezzo elegiaco

Mario Reviglione was a painter, and printmaker, close to Symbolism, a forerunner of the Art Deco style, akin to the movement of Magic Realism, and proudly countering the dominant style of the early 20th century. His two favorite subjects were landscape and portrait. In painting nature he drew more heavily on Belgian and French Symbolist tendencies, evident in his views of lakes at the evocative hours of dawn and dusk, while in his portraits he stands out for his utter originality.

Read more

Who’s next?… Franz Sedlaceck

by Valentina Biondini, art and literature amateur

La biblioteca, 1939

What is the definition of irony for a calamity visionary as I have been defined? Dying? Or worse, disappearing mysteriously in one of the military campaigns conducted during what was, in fact, one of the bloodiest calamities in human history, the Second World War? But let’s go in order. My name is Franz Sedlacek and, rightly or wrongly, I was one of the main Austrian artists active between the two world wars.

Read more