Born in Messina on 9 February 1903, in the 1920s Giuseppe Migneco moved to Milan, where he took part in the Corrente movement and where he remained until his death, which took place between 27 and 28 February 1997. On Migneco a lot, and by many, it has been written. Professional critics but also poets and men of letters, from Quasimodo to Sciascia, have repeatedly highlighted the fundamental expressionistic vein, always present even where the realism to which his painting seems to be inspired is manifested with the clearest outlines . This realistic component of Migneco's painting has sometimes been traced back to a broader historical context, to a choice of field, cultural or, if we want, purely ideological, which led to identifying the reasons for realism with those of commitment and social denunciation. . The artist himself seemed on occasion to partially validate this thesis: with the self-irony of which he was capable (as anyone is capable of authentic irony), he once wrote to a friend, a companion in both artistic and political-ideological choices in the sense of what was then called 'socialist realism', reproaching him, in a more or less joking way, of succeeding much better than he in following its dictates.Bound
