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Gaetano Tranchino is a Sicilian painter known for his depictions of Sicily. Tranchino has been active exhibiting his work throughout Italy, in addition to internationally.[1]
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Gaetano Tranchino | |
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| Born | 1938 (age 85–86) |
| Occupation | Sicilian painter |
Self-identifying as being a poor student and somewhat lacking formal education, Tranchino is included among Italian Naïve artists. He was initially fascinated by promotional film posters and film stills seen as depicting fragments taken from a larger story.[2]
Gaetano Tranchino was born in Syracuse, Sicily in 1938. A close friend of the late writer Leonardo Sciascia and the photographer Ferdinando Scianna, Tranchino has exhibited throughout Italy and beyond since 1964.
Tranchino uses bold and saturated hues when painting, often referencing Sicily, especially the post-war period of his childhood and youth. Motifs of departing ships (often under a full plume of steam), solitary readers and walkers, and landscapes of rural or small-city life, are repeated images in his body of work.
According to Sciascia, "Tranchino, à la Stendhal, à la Savinio, does not work… he enjoys himself, that is to say, he paints with delight, with pleasure, as on a prolonged vacation – so very prolonged –, continuous and intense enough to absorb his whole life."[3]
Writing in The Irish Times of Tranchino’s 2010 solo exhibition at the Rua/Red Gallery in Tallaght, Dublin, Ireland, art critic Aidan Dunne stated: "He uses intense yellows, pinks, reds, greens and blues in richly textured, jewel-like masses, often accentuated by strong tonal contrasts. If he wasn’t such a good painter it could all go horribly wrong, but he is actually a fine, sensitive painter, and the paintings are not only attractive but capable of withstanding sustained attention: they’d be good to live with, in other words. Tranchino’s place of memory is tinged with the sadness of loss, but as formulated, it’s an almost pleasurable sadness."[4]
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Irish poet Pat Boran has a number of books that feature cover images by Tranchino,[5] including his anthology The Word Ark: A Pocket Book of Animal Poems.
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