Antonio Bertè ^©  

(1936 - 2009)

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Antonio Bertè saw his career start in the 1960s, becoming a very popular artist in Naples but not only in the 1970s. His visionary pictorial production takes inspiration from music and literature. In fact, he dedicated thematic cycles to Federico García Lorca (1970 and 1990), Alessandro Manzoni (1973), Kafka (1974) and Pirandello (1980). Bertè's pictorial language is always found in a dimension poised between reality and abstraction, between objectivity and subjectivity. In fact, his works are generally composed in a figurative language, but totally transfigured in the artist's poetics. And so the entire composition of the work undergoes anti-naturalistic forcing in an expressive key, both in terms of the formal synthesis of the subjects and, above all, in that of the use of color. In fact, Bertè's works are always contextualized in atmospheres full of colors and dynamic pictorial gestures.

(Freely taken from the website venderequadri.it)