Alicò Giovanni (Catania 1906-1971) Oil painting on table depicting country road with houses. (Aci Sant'Antonio) and Etna in perspective. Signed on the bottom right Alicò and dated 195850x60 cm, in Frame 71 x 81 cmGiovanni Alicò was born in Catania in 1906.Self-taught painter, his approach to art is free from precondrued constraints or tracks. In 1935 he establishesFirst in Naples then in Milan. In 1942 he is present with a work at the XXIII Biennale in Venice, and in theThe same year, he holds his first personal exhibition at the Tornabuoni Gallery of Florence. Follow, between 1948and 1953, six years of activity in Argentina, with three personal to Buenos Aires and many participations inCollective in several national salons in the cities of La Rioja, Santa Fè, Mendoza and Rosario. BackItaly, from the mid-fifties and for the entire subsequent decade themselves were his personal toCatania, Milan, Rome and Como.It was awarded Suzzara in 1955 with the farmer's work that rests, where the painter, released by oneCold realistic description and far from the typical Neocuban schemes of the first post-war period, abandonsto a painting of luministic suggestion, from the wide green, gray, landownes, supported byA dense pictorial matter defined by a thick outline line. The painting is currently preservedIn the Civic Gallery of Contemporary Art of Suzzara.In 1957 he exhibited the Pincio in Piazza del Popolo in Rome, one of the most active realities in thePanorama of art exhibitions, where they also exposed Renato Guttuso and Carla Accardi.He started his artistic path depicting in his painting the carts with the colorful stories of PupiUsing Preferably Tims, then it introduces delicate colors in its palette,Vibrant, and focuses on themes pervaded by a marked spirituality. The favorites are figuresFeminine, death nature and landscapes. In the fifties Giovanni Alicò approaches his style to that ofGuttuso, in the field of social realism. His attention is towards a synthetic figurative painting, whichIt proceeds to suggestions in the general adherence to the themes of social realism.After 1960 he enters his work an important poetic made of arabesques bright and chromatic effectsShaded furniture. Since 1967, anthropomorphic characters appear on these wallpapers, sort of ghosts, whichLibroise in the space of the composition. The ultimate production of the artist is instead characterized by paintingswhere signs, repeated geometric shapes and large color stains are made with intense and vivid colorsI arrive at informal and material outcomes.Giovanni Alicò dies in Catania in 1971. After his death, an important retrospective is set upAt the Palazzo della Stocky in Catania in 1973. Many of his works are present in important collectionsPrivate in Europe and America and in various art foundations