José Basso (Chilean, b. 1949), "Luna Llena", 2022, oil on canvas, signed lower right, label with artist, title and date on backing board, 40 in. x 60 in., framed. Provenance: Windsor Fine Art, New Orleans, LA, 2022. Note: Jose Basso's vast canvases dotted with quiet buildings and sparse horizons emanate a sense of meditative calm. Born in Chile in 1949, Basso graduated with a Fine Arts degree from the University of Chile and has been teaching art and exhibiting his works since 1975. His paintings strike the balance between the minimal and complex. While reverberating with color, his compositions of isolated homesteads are remarkably subdued. Informed by the proto-renaissance works of Giotto and futurist works of Carlo Carrà, Basso reflects on the importance of houses depicted throughout art history stating, “The house symbolizes the maternal uterus, the motherland, the mother earth…the nurturing abode.” This comparison of the home to the maternal provides a deeper context for his depictions. In this lot, a cluster of four houses with swathes of land stretching out on either side anchor the canvas. The sprawling land and sky give the buildings room to breathe, yet the warm light illuminating the structures quells any sense of aloneness. As Basso notes, “I want to make a kind of art that means something and it means something when it affects and seduces us, when it speaks from within its own silence.”Ref.: “Jose Basso”. Windsor Fine Art. www.windsorfineart.com. Accessed Aug. 9, 2022. “Jose Basso”. CK Contemporary. www.ckcontemporary.com. Accessed Aug. 10, 2022. “Jose Basso”. Galerie d’Orsay. www.galerie-dorsay.com. Accessed Aug. 10, 2022.

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