Etching Jazz Man by Giancarlo Cazzaniga

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Etching Jazz Man Giancarlo Cazzaniga (Monza 1930 - Milan 2013). Encouraged by his father, he dedicated himself to studying painting, attending the Cimabue Academy in Milan from 1950. Immediately after the war he began to frequent the artistic circles linked to the Existential Realism movement, with artists such as Bepi Romagnoni, Mino Ceretti, Giuseppe Guerreschi, Giuseppe Banchieri and Tino Vaglieri, who were looking for a new response and a new way of looking at social realism. A recurring theme in Cazzaniga's works is the nightlife that gravitates around jazz music; his friends were the great Italian jazz musicians: Franco Cerri and Enrico Intra. In 1962 he participated in the XXXI Venice Biennale with a selection of works on the theme of jazz music, the Jazz Man. Another recurring motif in his art is landscapes and nature. In this intense etching, small but scratchy, a jazzman playing his saxophone is depicted. The figure, made up only of light, emerges from the dark background. Captured in the act of playing, the saxophone is recognisable thanks to a few lines. The nervous stroke, the rapid, dense signs intertwine and create the whole composition, and it seems as if we can hear the notes enveloping the jazz player and spreading out from the paper, producing a sort of echo. At the bottom, beyond the engraving, on the left "Prova d'autore/Jazz Men" on the right pencil signature. Excellent impression. Very good condition. Large margins beyond the copperplate stop. Measures in mm 132 x 148, sheet 500 x 349.

ID: 11318-1623768755-20358