Rome in noir with the atmosphere of Jack Vettriano – Rome – Arte.it

Roma – From him in 2004 Singing butler it had sold at Sotheby’s for almost £750,000, despite official art critics who had never forgiven his self-taught training and light aesthetic.
Yet Scottish painter Jack Vettriano, born Jack Hoggan, has come a long way, with his remarkable ability to create evocative atmospheres that can evoke intense emotions and capture sensual moments.
The singing butler For example, it depicts a dancing couple moving gracefully along the coastline on a windy day, protected by open parasols by a maid and a butler who, in Vettriano’s imagination, sings Fly me to the moon by Frank Sinatra.
Jack Vettriano, Another Married Man, 30.5 x 39 cm, work on museum paper, 2001

You can also sense the atmosphere of this work in the retrospective that will take place February 12 to July 5 Palazzo Velli, in Rome, is dedicated to the recently deceased artist, appreciated for his works with a cinematic and melancholic flavor.

Born in the County of Fife, on the Scottish coast of the North Sea, into a family with links to mining, and working as an apprentice mining technician from the age of sixteen, Vettriano (who in the meantime adopted the surname of his mother, daughter of an Italian emigrant from Frosinone) graduated from the Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh in 1988, where he sold two paintings.
There is also a video in which Vettriano talks about himself and his stylistic evolution in the Roman exhibition curated by Francesca Bogliolo, organized by Chiara Campagnoli, Deborah Petroni and Rubens Fogacci of Pallavicini srl, in collaboration with Jack Vettriano Publishing. A journey that brings more than 80 works to the capital, including ten oil paintings on canvas, a series of single-edition works on museum paper and the photo cycle created in the artist’s studio by Francesco Guidicini, official portraitist of the Sunday Times.
The visitor is invited to immerse himself in the noir atmospheres evoked by his paintings, sometimes populated by romantic themes and nudes in the foreground, in the setting of romantic and at the same time restless loves where women of disturbing beauty and elegant men intertwine their relationships in luxurious hotel rooms, ballrooms or exclusive clubs.