"Raccoglitore di Arance" by Giuseppe Migneco

Aquatint etching
Dimensions: 60 x 45 cm
Signature and number in pencil on front
Number A.p.

Giuseppe Migneco (Messina, 9 February 1903 - Milan, 28 February 1997) was an Italian painter. He is remembered as one of the greatest expressionists of the twentieth century.

In 1937 he was one of the founders of the "Corrente" movement which brought together artists from different cultural backgrounds with a common goal of opening up to modern European culture, by rejecting the cultural isolation imposed by fascist politics.

Over time, artists with very different visions of art became part of the "Corrente" movement, initially coming together to reject outdated pictorial canons and later taking different paths, including Arnaldo Badodi, Birolli, Broggini, Cassinari, Cherchi, Gauli, Guttuso, Manzù , Morlotti, Paganin, Sassu, Valenti, and Vedova.

The colors he used were always strong and bright, recalling his homeland Sicily with violent and clear lines, the hard and courageous faces making his canvases an expression of the existential struggle, in the continuous and profound confrontation with humanity and with the events that besiege it, in the consciousness and in the hope of freedom and memory, beyond the absurd solitude of existence. Migneco died in Milan on February 28, 1997.