curated by Monica Cardarelli
The Laocoonte Gallery presents 70 sheets, including pen drawings, watercolor and lithographs by Alberto Martini (Oderzo 1876-Milan 1954), one of the major European illustrators of the early twentieth century, one of the most original and bizarre. His ability to use pen and India ink with such a minute and obsessive technique is such as to make his plates look like a work of engraving, in the service of a visionary imagination that transcends the very literary works he illustrated – Poe, Shakespeare, Mallarmé – placing themselves at the same time as the epigone of decadence and symbolism and the absolute precursor of surrealism.
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