{"id":2061,"date":"2022-11-15T18:18:10","date_gmt":"2022-11-15T18:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.giovanniiudice.com\/?p=2061"},"modified":"2022-11-15T18:18:10","modified_gmt":"2022-11-15T18:18:10","slug":"thomas-deprez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.giovanniiudice.com\/en\/2022\/11\/15\/thomas-deprez\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Deprez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<em>The light of life<\/em>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]In his hyper realistic way ludice is one of the few Sicilian painters of life in all its facets. An example of this unprejudiced look at life is to be found in his acclaimed series on refugees; documenting the universal stories of the human being on the move.<br \/>\nArt, however, should not always carry the burden of social topics. Giovanni ludice\u2019s paintings are social documents registering the everyday life of everyday people. Realising the danger of skillful, but seem-ingly hollow painting, ludice makes sure never to lose its onlooker in his hyper realistic renditions. The artist plays with the apparent banality of images.<br \/>\nThe contemporary spectator is only confronted in second instance with the idea that there is more to the image than is evident at first. ludice himself<br \/>\nonce stated that you could not talk about reality without confessing there is a mysterious part to it.<br \/>\nThe pictorial quality of the image seems to enhance that sense of mystery by a masterful choice of finish; sometimes leaving the preparatory drawing open and untouched, or contrasting colourful areas with areas where colour seems to have been washed away by the burning sunlight. Selected are paintings of his main body of works, dealing with leisure and the good life at the Sicilian coast. Considered by many nature\u2019s greatest gift to the Sicilian people, the sun, we find these paintings bathing in that very light.<br \/>\nThey are warm, open, honest and welcoming; in some way very alike to the Sicilian people.<\/p>\n<p>dal Catalogo \u201cThe Light of Sicily\u201d<br \/>\nGalleria Maere, Gent (Belgium).[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The light of life[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]In his hyper realistic way ludice is one of the few Sicilian painters of life in all its facets. An example of this unprejudiced look at life is to be found in his acclaimed series on refugees; documenting the universal stories of the human being on the move. Art, however, should not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-testi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.giovanniiudice.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.giovanniiudice.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.giovanniiudice.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.giovanniiudice.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.giovanniiudice.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2061"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.giovanniiudice.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2062,"href":"https:\/\/www.giovanniiudice.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2061\/revisions\/2062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.giovanniiudice.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.giovanniiudice.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.giovanniiudice.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}