Guglielmo Emilio Aschieri, besides being a fine artist, was a kind, thoughtful and, above all, irresistibly nice man. His painting has always impressed me deeply. While moving within a traditional, solid and impeccable technique, his work was strikingly contemporary. A Padano, Cremonese through and through, he looked at Tuscan painting with sincere admiration, but also with that proper ironic detachment that allowed him to dialogue with tradition without ever being crushed by it.
His still lifes-those large sheet metal plates laden with fruit and vegetables-often reminded me of certain Renaissance works: a Renaissance revisited, almost a sarcastic and irreverent Fra’ Angelico, just like his character. In those images there was respect for great Italian art, but also an awareness of our limitations, of the inevitable debts that every artist carries.
The last time I saw Guglielmo was at my exhibition at the Mangano Gallery in Cremona. On the way home, crossing the plains, one regret kept coming up: not having taken a picture together. Guglielmo remains in his paintings, certainly, but mostly in the luminous memory of those who were fortunate enough to know him.
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