Gaetano Tranchino
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Gaetano Tranchino (born 1938) is a Sicilian painter known for his depictions of his native Sicily. Tranchino has been active in the art world since 1964, exhibiting his work extensively in Italy and internationally.[1]
A self-confessed poor student, Tranchino was fascinated by promotional film posters and the still moments they depicted that were taken from a larger story. [2]
Biography
[edit]Gaetano Tranchino was born in Syracuse (Siracusa), Sicily in 1938. A close friend of the writer Leonardo Sciascia and the photographer Ferdinando Scianna, Tranchino has, since 1964, exhibited throughout Italy and beyond.
Critical responses
[edit]Tranchino uses bold and saturated hues when painting, often referencing his native Sicily, especially the post-war period of his childhood and youth. Motifs of departing ships (often under a full plume of steam), solitary readers and walkers, and landscapes of rural or small-city life, are repeated images in his body of work.
According to Sciascia: “Tranchino, à la Stendhal, à la Savinio, does not work… he enjoys himself, that is to say, he paints with delight, with pleasure, as on a prolonged vacation – so very prolonged –, continuous and intense enough to absorb his whole life.”[3]
Writing in The Irish Times (5 May 2010) of Tranchino’s 2010 solo exhibition at the Rua/Red Gallery in Tallaght, Dublin, Ireland, art critic Aidan Dunne opined: “He uses intense yellows, pinks, reds, greens and blues in richly textured, jewel-like masses, often accentuated by strong tonal contrasts. If he wasn’t such a good painter it could all go horribly wrong, but he is actually a fine, sensitive painter, and the paintings are not only attractive but capable of withstanding sustained attention: they’d be good to live with, in other words. Tranchino’s place of memory is tinged with the sadness of loss, but as formulated, it’s an almost pleasurable sadness.”[4]
Illustrative Work
[edit]Irish poet Pat Boran, has a number of books that feature cover images by Tranchino,[5] and his anthology The Word Ark: A Pocket Book of Animal Poems was illustrated by Tranchino.
References
[edit]- ^ www.artnet.com https://www.artnet.com/artists/gaetano-tranchino/. Retrieved 2024-08-19.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ^ Cosmogonia 1904 (2020-08-06). Cosmogonia – Intervista a Gaetano Tranchino. Retrieved 2024-09-26 – via YouTube.
{{cite AV media}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ "English". Gaetano Tranchino. Retrieved 2024-09-25.
- ^ "When is an exhibition not an exhibition?". The Irish Times. Retrieved 2024-09-25.
- ^ "The Next Life". Dedalus Press. Retrieved 2024-09-25.
External links
[edit]- Artist website: Gaetano Tranchino
- Artist page on artnet.com
- The Word Ark: A Pocket Book of Animal Poems on Dedalus Press website