Aratura

In this precious charcoal drawing, the marks delineating the two people working at the plough drawn by a couple of bulls are surrounded by blackness from the strokes of charcoal, which all but cancel out the figures.
Piero Sadun exhibits here that “subtle stroke like a spider’s thread”, which attracted the attention of the critic Cesare Brandi to the original contribution that the young painter made to the Italian art scene. A contribution defined by the animated emotional and psychological vibrancy of the form, which can be placed in the context of those sectors of European art which were more intensely attracted by the existentialist conception of the human condition.