Michele Bubacco
His approach to painting is raw and visceral, with deliberate strokes and a reduced palette that emphasises the anguish and despair of his figures. His canvases, gestural and at times violent, present an implicit narrative in which figurative elements are fragmented, leaving the viewer only a partial point of entry into the chaotic events that seem to unfold.
Taken together, the works present a “narrative line”: although this non-narrative has no beginning and no end, the multi-figure images can be seen as the opening scenes of an enigmatic vortex of unease, while the single-figure paintings are vignettes that heighten the sense of darkness and mystery. Bubacco has been described as an “existentialist” and is certainly a descendant of artists such as Alberto Giacometti, Germaine Richier and Francis Bacon; like theirs, his figures struggle for self-definition amid ambiguity, in an age of doubt.
Michele Bubacco was born in Venice in 1983, where he had the first experiences that shaped him as a painter, encountering the works of the great Venetian masters of the past as well as those of leading contemporary artists.