Italo Ghilardi (1946) - Internata 1944






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Internata 1944, oil painting from Italy, original from 2025, sold with frame, by Italo Ghilardi (born 1946).
Description from the seller
Ghilardi Italo (1946/) - Interned 1944
Oil painting - Hand-signed - 2025
Ghilardi Italo (1946/)
Work from 2025 by Italo Ghilardi - author who has exhibited at the Remo Bianco Museum / Foundation - works by Italo Ghilardi have been shown at the Venice Biennale 2018 / and at the international Frieze fair, Los Angeles 2023
"Interned 1944"
Critical description
The work presents the isolated face of a prisoner, fixed in suspended time. The scattered letters in the background evoke the loss of personal identity, reduced to fragments or numbers. The color choices and decisive brushwork visually translate pain and alienation, while the subject's direct gaze confronts the viewer, asking for memory and awareness in a gesture of ironic meaning or rebellion, showing the tongue.
The painting thus becomes a symbolic testimony to 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/) - Interned 1944
Oil painting - Hand-signed - 2025
Ghilardi Italo (1946/)
Work from 2025 by Italo Ghilardi - author who has exhibited at the Remo Bianco Museum / Foundation - works by Italo Ghilardi have been shown at the Venice Biennale 2018 / and at the international Frieze fair, Los Angeles 2023
"Interned 1944"
Critical description
The work presents the isolated face of a prisoner, fixed in suspended time. The scattered letters in the background evoke the loss of personal identity, reduced to fragments or numbers. The color choices and decisive brushwork visually translate pain and alienation, while the subject's direct gaze confronts the viewer, asking for memory and awareness in a gesture of ironic meaning or rebellion, showing the tongue.
The painting thus becomes a symbolic testimony to 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
