Woman in blue stockings (1973) cm 87×107 – Tempera su tela

In 1972 Dady Orsi’s collaboration with Carlo Riva came to an end. That activity has seen him for over twenty years to take care, along with Federico Patellani, the corporate communication of Riva Motoscafi. Tired of the world of industrial graphics, which, among other things, takes energy away from his artistic activity, he finally abandoned that environment to return to being a full-time painter and to regularly exhibit his work. On the other hand, he wanted to follow his vocation by calling himself out of the market that favors the latest trends. Beppe Mainieri was the first to provide him with a niche to circulate his cultured but not intellectual painting in his gallery in Via Bigli. A lunar and perturbing nude, Woman with Blue Stockings is one of the most appreciated by the public, which is very numerous in this return exhibition. By the artist’s will, and in agreement with the gallery owner, the painting is not among those for sale. Referring to this painting, the artist declares that he was inspired by Manet, whose synthesis he admires, free of complications, and whose range of dark colours spread flat, without indulging in the academic rendering of volumes. Here the figurative language combines a brazen eroticism with an equally brazen extraneousness to all the languages of the avant-garde, to which Orsi would not have adapted either for fashion or money.