Italo Ghilardi (1946) - Internata 1944






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Internata 1944 is a 2025 oil painting by Italo Ghilardi (1946), Italy, in original edition, 50 cm high by 40 cm wide, hand-signed, sold with frame by Galleria, period 2020+, and accompanied by a certificate of authenticity.
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Ghilardi Italo (1946/) - Internata 1944
Oil painting - Hand-signed - 2025
Ghilardi Italo (1946/)
Artwork from 2025 by Italo Ghilardi - author who has exhibited at the Remo Bianco Contemporary Art Museum / foundation - works by Italo Ghilardi have been shown at the Venice Biennale 2018 / and at the international Frieze fair, Los Angeles 2023
"Internata 1944"
Critical description
The work presents the isolated face of a prisoner, fixed in a suspended moment. The scattered letters in the background evoke the loss of personal identity, reduced to fragments or numbers. The chromatic choice and the decisive stroke visually translate pain and alienation, while the subject’s direct gaze engages the viewer, prompting memory and awareness in a gesture of ironic meaning or rebellion, showing the tongue.
The painting thus becomes symbolic testimony of the condition of internees in concentration camps: men and women deprived of name, freedom and dignity, but not of their humanity and freedom of expression.
Work accompanied by a certificate of authenticity
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Seller's Story
Ghilardi Italo (1946/) - Internata 1944
Oil painting - Hand-signed - 2025
Ghilardi Italo (1946/)
Artwork from 2025 by Italo Ghilardi - author who has exhibited at the Remo Bianco Contemporary Art Museum / foundation - works by Italo Ghilardi have been shown at the Venice Biennale 2018 / and at the international Frieze fair, Los Angeles 2023
"Internata 1944"
Critical description
The work presents the isolated face of a prisoner, fixed in a suspended moment. The scattered letters in the background evoke the loss of personal identity, reduced to fragments or numbers. The chromatic choice and the decisive stroke visually translate pain and alienation, while the subject’s direct gaze engages the viewer, prompting memory and awareness in a gesture of ironic meaning or rebellion, showing the tongue.
The painting thus becomes symbolic testimony of the condition of internees in concentration camps: men and women deprived of name, freedom and dignity, but not of their humanity and freedom of expression.
Work accompanied by a certificate of authenticity
Insured shipping
