STEFANO GARBUGLIA

Stefano Garbuglia's works are based on a careful bibliographic and iconographic reconstruction of historical and anthropological sources. We are therefore dealing with an artist who does not propose an exclusively decorative aims, but tends to offer images that are expertly conceived and designed, in which each element is not random, but corresponds exactly to objective data, whose historical truth is indisputable. A first example of this philological rigor is the work Santa Lucia which, according to what the artist explains in a note, "reinterprets the martyrdom of the saint by tracing the classical iconography, despite being dressed only in the veil of Christian passion". Fidelity to the hagiographic sources, therefore, but at the same time a courageous evasion of traditional iconography, showing the virgin martyr in the splendor of her naked body which remained chaste and inviolate, despite the threats of the Prefect Pascasio to have her taken to a brothel. The desire to get out of..