 As early as 1950, Virgilio Guidi was to intuit that «Lucatello’s work has a naturalistic appearance, that tentative, indeterminate quality of the young when faced with the problem of [representing] nature, and yet, in reality, its structure is not naturalistic [...] he already has the ability to remove the elements of visible reality, to exclude the superfluous and to assemble that which he sees as necessary in a light that is necessarily by no means accidental.These factors, do not strictly belong to naturalism».This ability to see beneath the surface, to reveal that which is not immediately visible or is otherwise obscured by a prescriptive 'by numbers' approach, is aided by Lucatello's ongoing study of light, colour, and materiality, in all their myriad combinations
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