Untitled (1986) Original Oil Painting by Gastone Cecconello

1986 oil painting from the Ominidi cycle — the stylized figures Cecconello began developing around 1976 as, in his own words, "a parody of man".
Archetypal busts reduced to essential silhouettes, silent and motionless like herms, crowd the pictorial surface in a dense, teeming composition. They embody contemporary man trapped and serialized, stripped of freedom and identity — a condition Cecconello felt deeply personal, born from his reflection on the alienation of technological civilization.
The technique is vigorous: oil worked into a dense impasto, directional brushstrokes building a surface that is tactile and geological. The palette of warm earth tones — ochre, bronze, antique rose, silvery grey — is cut through by golden yellow accents that trace the profiles of the hominids like luminous veins.
1986 marks the year colour returns as a dominant force in Cecconello's practice: the paint is fluid yet compact, like a primordial magma from which the human figures emerge and dissolve.

Materials used:

oil

Details:

• Oil painting on Other
• One of a kind artwork
• Size: 60 x 50 x 2cm (framed)
• This artwork is sold framed
• Signed on the front
• Style: Abstract
• Subject: Abstract and non-figurative