UMBRIAN FUTURIST LANDSCAPES: GERARDO DOTTORI'S AEROPAINTING

This paper sheds light onto the unquestionable contribution Dottori's art conferred to Aeropainting which set off a new-fangled perspective of looking at reality, painted through a synthesis of transfiguration which at once challenges and harmonizes the terrestrial “objectivity”. The latter, only ostensibly, is on a lower level as the vault of heaven Dottori paints next to it, entirely includes it, the result is an all-encompassing harmony which joins the celestial and the terrestrial dimension. Moreover this harmony is backed up by another crucial feature: Dottori's art was also defined as slightly mystical and this further element bestowed his 219 Futurism an even more ethereal outlook: the height of his “flight” was abysmal and my paper aims to underline how vital this combination was.