Osvaldo Licini's Landscapes at Monte Vidon Corrado

A new exhibition titled 'La regione delle madri. I paesaggi di Osvaldo Licini' opened on July 25, 2020, at the Casa Museo and Centro Studi Osvaldo Licini in Monte Vidon Corrado, a small town in the province of Fermo, Italy. The show features around 120 works, including paintings and drawings, many shown for the first time in person, exploring Licini's landscape painting. Curated by Daniela Simoni, the exhibition traces Licini's evolution from geometric realism to fantastic primitivism, sidereal abstraction, and anthropomorphic 'personpaesaggi.' Key works include 'Marina' (1921), 'Paesaggio marchigiano' (1925), 'Colline marchigiane' (1927), 'Capriccio n. 2' (1932), 'Bilico' (1933), 'Personaggio' (1945), 'Angelo su fondo rosso' (1950), 'Omaggio a Cavalcanti' (1954), and 'Amalassunta Luna' (1946). Licini (1894-1958) was known as a solitary artist who worked in the Marche region, marrying Nanny Hellstrom in Paris in 1925. The exhibition draws on letters to friends Felice Catalini and Franco Ciliberti, and references critic Palma Bucarelli's writings from 1958 and 1973. Bucarelli noted Licini's poetic intensity and small-scale works, comparing his dialectic between geometric rationalism and fantastic irrationalism to Klee and Miró. The show offers new insights into Licini's creative process and his connection to the landscape of the Marche.