… In the changing moments of eternity, I have been trying to seize the landscape of our land, made of spirituality and kindness, full of infinite faces continuously longing for love .
That is the true heart of my work..Benedetto (Betto) Lotti (Taggia, July 12, 1894 - Como, 1977) was an Italian painter and engraver[1] who belonged to the art movement called Novecento Italiano.
Due to fact that his father was working for the state, the family was constrained to move constantly and the young man had to attend schools in different Italian cities.
The young Betto Lotti dedicated himself to mastering his style, especially in charcoal drawing, oil painting and engravings at the Academy of Florence; therein he met Ottone Rosai who became his great friend, and with whom he shared the enthusiasm and experience of the period between 1911 and 1914.
The fathers of Futurism, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Carlo Carrà e Umberto Boccioni attended the exhibition and were impressed by the works of young artists.
In the works displayed, Lotti opted for stylised female figures that seemed almost visions or ghosts, intrepid somber backgrounds, disturbing reflections of profiles and faces.
The maturity of the artist reached its peak in those decades, confirming the full membership of Betto Lotti in Italian art movement, born in the twenties and defined as Novecento.
Betto Lotti has left an indelible imprint of great value during more than forty years spent in Como: from 1934 to 1977, he participated in almost all collective exhibitions held in Lombardy, such as Suzzara Prize or the Angelicum in Milan; he organized solo exhibitions in almost all the cities of Lombardy (Milan, Bergamo, Lecco, Varese, Como, to name a few ); as an illustrator, he participated in the contest for the poster of Visconti Castle of Pavia in 1937, where he won the first prize; He was one of the founders and the vice president of the Fine Arts Association in Como; he won numerous awards, gold medals and diplomas in his field, the list of which can be found in the artist's official monograph; he was appointed a member of important institutions of the world of art, for example cultural institution La Permanente in Milan in 1946, Academia Latinitati Excolendae of Rome in 1959 and Academia Tiberina in Rome in 1960.