Guido Pajetta (1898-1987) - Senza Titolo

Oil on canvas with strong expressive intensity.
The work seems to depict a scene of ritual slaughter, with two birds laid out in the foreground and the evident presence of a knife, a symbolic element that alludes to the act of slitting.

The scene is not approached in a narrative or realistic manner, but through a material painting that is instinctive and highly emotional, where forms are broken down and reassembled through color. Deep reds, bright oranges, and purples contrast with blacks and dark earth tones, evoking tension, sacrifice, and physicality.

The subject, harsh and direct, becomes a pretext for a pictorial reflection on primordial violence, the life–death cycle, and the archaic dimension of human gesture, recurring themes in the artist's most intense exploration.

A work with a strong visual and conceptual impact, intended for a collector sensitive to expressionist and symbolic painting.

Work by Guido Paolo Pajetta, an artist of great importance, who entered the history of art among the great Italian painters of the 20th century.
Pajetta's pictorial gesture, at times light and swift, at other times sharp and bold, is constantly changing. Tormented by his own obsessions, the artist relies on the image as a sort of disguise or alter ego.

Guido Pajetta was able to use many languages to achieve his goal of interior analysis.
He was, until the end, an artist driven by impulses that led him to deal with motifs, sometimes lyrical, sometimes dramatic, generated by emotions and authentic experiences because they were the fruit of his passions and anxieties.

Untitled
Cm: 35 x 70
Year: N/A
Opera archived and authenticated.
Archive code: 2816
Work registered at Giorgio Pajetta Archive.
Unframed artwork
Fabric mounted on a frame.