Gaetano Tranchino

Gaetano Tranchino (born 1938) is a Sicilian painter, known for his depictions of his native Sicily. Tranchino has been active in the art world since 1964, exhibiting his work extensively in Italy and internationally.

Biography

Gaetano Tranchino was born in Syracuse (Siracusa), Sicily in 1938. A close friend of the writer Leonardo Sciascia and the photographer Ferdinando Scianna, Tranchino has, since 1964, exhibited throughout Italy and beyond.

'Casa azzurra con giardino / Blue house with Garden' by Gaetano Tranchino

Critical responses

Tranchino's work is typified by distinctive, colour-infused images that present a dreamlike and somewhat introspective vision of his native Sicily, fusing myth and personal memories of, especially, the postwar period of his childhood and youth. Motifs of departing ships (often under a full plume of steam), solitary readers and walkers, the rich and almost idyllic landscapes of rural or small-city life, appear again and again in his work, connecting and refining images made sometimes decades apart.

External links

• Artist website: Gaetano Tranchino
• Artist page on artnet.com
• The Word Ark: A Pocket Book of Animal Poems on Dedalus Press website