The dense and fleshy world of matter reigns supreme over all the juvenile production of Giacomo Fassio, Sardinian artist who actively rediscovers in his work landscape and seascape, condensed between objectivity and subjectivity, impressions and inventions. He has produced beautiful landscape scenes in a style which stands out both for its accuracy and for its classic clarity. An exhibition in Milan has emphasised his considerable renown, his fresh appearance on the art market and the figural reflection characterising his latest production, which narrates, describes and observes reality and supplies it with settings. He proves a really versatile artist, the child of an age of changes, alterations and experiments. Fassio has set aside research based on change, and has devoted himself entirely to traditional research, which delves into colour and light, blending tradition and novelty and also forms and sign. He has reviewed, studied and reported the principles underlying centuries of art, especially those characterising the 19th and 20th century, a bridge over a modern romantic nostalgia. In his paintings, myth and reality merge; his sketches and strokes denote an excellent colourist, a painter endowed with an extremely personal chromatic sensitivity, resulting from a broad experience and from great picturing skills. Fassio is above all a landscape painter; he delves into the world of painting as a whole and opts for that impressionistic realism which emphasises the visible world, the praise of nature’s magnificence and the rapture for life’s beauty. His painting represents each detail only for its own sake and mainly deals with material aspects, such as the light and luminous air, the fluid and glittering sea, the small everyday world surrounding the scene. Even though far away from the major cultural and artistic centres, Fassio - who lives in Sardinia, where he develops dreams and legends - relies upon his inner self and his expressive ability, guided by power, by joy, by the deepest and most fleeting feelings. As I was looking at his works, I thought of Max Klinger’s great lesson, which incorporates symbolism and realism, and is sometimes obsessive, or allegoric, and lets beauty spring from a unified vision. Giacomo Fassio’s painting is nourished by the world of Rafael Nieddu, an excellent artist he has known ever since the early ’70s; by his realist approach, by his stylistic realism which is in fact a dream reality, charged with bright colours, which are sometimes translucent and range from yellows to reds, to blacks, blues and sea greens. The images portrayed in his landscapes are also interesting because of the style of the shots, they succeed one another like photograms or even motion pictures, set in the realistic frame of everyday life, marked by the various daytime and evening phases, with lights declining from broad daylight to evening darkness. Giacomo Fassio has entrusted his painting with life itself, not only by portraying the major themes of his notion of the world, but by blending within the cycles he has mostly felt over the last years the landscapes of Italy with those of the soul. All his artistic production is based on actual syntheses of different influences, on extremely skilful strokes, on very calculated effects, on the vitality of form. And all his work is seasoned with marvellous passion, with the urge which stimulates his painting, leaving behind a miraculous sense of beauty, like a natural skin singing the praises of the universal spirit. (traduzione Interpres Sas Giussano)