Marcos Anziani

Home by Dinner

2024

52 x 72 ″

Acrylic and oil on canvas

Home by Dinner feels like stepping into the vivid, technicolor chaos of a family reunion. In this tangled composition of bold lines and explosive hues, Anziani doesn’t just paint; he orchestrates a cacophony of overlapping lives, stories, and fleeting gestures. The figures, half-formed yet unmistakably alive, jostle for space as though caught in a perpetual, lively debate about whose turn it is to do the dishes. The painting speaks to the layered reality of home: a place of comfort and conflict, love and disorder, all tangled together in a beautiful mess. Anziani’s exuberant use of color, fiery reds, electric yellows, and serene blues, suggests that home is not just a location but an emotional landscape, a battleground of feelings where laughter and frustration coexist in perfect disharmony. The abstracted forms evoke echoes of Jean Dubuffet’s raw humanism and even Picasso’s fragmented faces, but Anziani takes these influences and infuses them with a playful irreverence that’s entirely his own. Home by Dinner ponders the universal human condition: the endless balancing act between individuality and togetherness, chaos and order. It reminds us that home isn’t a place of perfection but a dynamic, imperfect canvas of shared humanity.