Luigi Guerricchio's painting (Matera 1932-1996) is strongly inspired by the images and landscapes familiar to him: the Sassi and Matera in the first place, but also the countryside and the houses, the work and the parties of the people of the South.
The interest in man and his state in society and in the environment in which he lives translates into a figurative realism permeated with popular culture and tradition. He was able to transfer the moods and feelings emerging from objective reality into painting; fidelity to the land of origin that lead him to interpret "an ancient world" with new expressive ways through the story of everyday life.
At the end of his activity he becomes a witness of the changes in the Lucanian society maintaining a strong expressive charge and an in-depth psychological analysis of the protagonists of his works. “Time and place make a painter” is the idea that Guerricchio shares with Carlo Levi and Rocco Scotellaro, to whom he was tied by a deep friendship.
