Mario Previ, Naive Scene, Oil on Glass, Framed

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Oil on glass. In the lower right corner present the signature and date, accompanied by the artist's symbol, the stylized … Read more Oil on glass. In the lower right corner present the signature and date, accompanied by the artist's symbol, the stylized figurine of a man in a wheelchair. This is a work on glass by painter Mario Previ, who has lived and painted in a wheelchair since the age of eighteen, due to quadriplegia resulting from a plunge into his Taro River. He said of himself :' The world, the passage of time, from this point of view (the wheelchair) teaches you many things. You learn to wake up every morning with a purpose, even if your body is aching, if every gesture generates suffering and you depend on others and giving up could be an easy solution. And instead, art, painting, together with the serenity of my world, of friends, give me incredible energy. They saved me, giving me the strength to live'. In 1974, three years after the accident, inspired by a television program on Yugoslav naif painters, particularly the glass works of Mijo Kovacic, Previ began painting and learning the art of glass painting as a self-taught artist, eventually becoming known and appreciated for his paintings. In his naifs Mario Previ recounts a reality that has now almost disappeared, real stories albeit in a fairy-tale tone, he revives lost traditions, slices of life that belonged to other generations, those of the peasant civilization (from which, moreover, he comes), but what emerges most from his visions are the "forë," those that could once be heard in the "firossi," the traditional evenings of the hamlets of of Parma dedicated to getting together to tell anecdotes, stories, and historical trivia, often in front of a fireplace fire when it was cold and snowy outside. The work is presented in a frame. This piece is attributed to the mentioned designer/maker. It has no attribution mark and no
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