Glicine by Matteo Massagrande
With Glicine, Matteo Massagrande introduces us to an outdoor landscape suspended in time. An abandoned house emerges from lush vegetation, wrapped in a blooming lilac wisteria that spreads across the front of the structure. Soft, dusty light envelops the scene, transforming the silence of the place into a poetic narrative suspended between memory and contemplation.
The artist: Matteo Massagrande
Matteo Massagrande (Padua, 1959) is one of the leading figures of the new Italian figurative art movement. His paintings portray rooms and abandoned places inhabited by a single presence: light. A soft and suspended light that restores intensity to emptiness and transforms absence into essence. Active since 1973, he has exhibited in over one hundred solo shows in Italy and abroad, with works included in museums, churches, and prestigious collections, among them the Uffizi’s Prints and Drawings Cabinet. He lives and works between Padua and Hajòs (Hungary).
Description “Glicine”
The work depicts an abandoned house immersed in vegetation, with lilac wisteria covering the front of the structure. Soft light illuminates the scene, creating depth and transforming the silence of the place into a poetic narrative suspended between memory and contemplation.
Conclusion
With Glicine, Massagrande explores the relationship between light, memory, and time, transforming an abandoned landscape into a poetic and suspended echo of the past.