Gaetano Tranchino

Gaetano Tranchino
Born1938 (age 86–87)
Ortygia, Syracuse, Sicily, Italy
OccupationPainter
Years active1964–present
StyleNaïve

Gaetano Tranchino (born 1938) is an Italian Naïve artist best known for his still-life paintings.[1] His paintings primarily depict scenes from Sicily. According to Leonardo Sciascia, Tranchino's work is influenced by literature, particularly Jorge Luis Borges and Joseph Conrad.[2]

Biography

Gaetano Tranchino was born in Syracuse, Sicily in 1938, where he continues to live and work on the island of Ortigia.[3] He debuted his first exhibition in Milan in 1964[3][4] and later exhibited his work across Italy and abroad. Tranchino's work was reviewed in the newspaper Corriere della Sera[3] by Leonardo Sciascia with whom he maintains a friendship. He has been associated with photographer Ferdinando Scianna.[5][6]

Illustrative work

Irish poet Pat Boran has used Tranchino's artwork on several book covers. The anthology The Word Ark: A Pocket Book of Animal Poems features Tranchino's line drawings as illustrations. Boran wrote the catalogue introduction to one of Tranchino's exhibitions and is involved with the official Gaetano Tranchino website.[7]

References

  1. ^ Cosmogonia 1904 (2020-08-06). Cosmogonia – Intervista a Gaetano Tranchino. Retrieved 2024-09-26 – via YouTube.{{cite AV media}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  2. ^ Blanco, Tiziana (6 July 2022). "Gaetano Tranchino, the painter who creates the encounter between art and literature". Libreriamo is Culthic. Retrieved 22 March 2025.
  3. ^ a b c "Biografia". Gaetano Tranchino. Retrieved 2025-03-04.
  4. ^ "Gaetano Tranchino | Quotazioni, valore e valutazione opere". www.capitoliumart.com (in Italian). Retrieved 2025-03-04.
  5. ^ Fondazione Leonardo Sciascia (2021-03-26). 3 minuti con Leonardo Sciascia. Gaetano Tranchino. Retrieved 2025-04-21 – via YouTube.
  6. ^ "Gaetano Tranchino, il pittore che crea l'incontro tra arte e letteratura". libreriamo.it (in Italian). 2022-07-06. Retrieved 2025-04-21.
  7. ^ https://www.dedaluspress.com/product/the-next-life/#:~:text=The%20first%20new%20collection%20of%20poems%20in


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