Son of Italian migrants, Lorenzato produced a work questioning the boundaries usually placed between the so-called popular painting and the one considered more scholarly. Untitled is an extraordinary example of one of the artist’s most typical motifs — perspectives of the favelas in the city of Belo Horizonte, his hometown and where he resettled in the 1950s, after passing by Florence, Rome, Brussels, Paris, Hamburg, and Rio de Janeiro. The treatment given to the theme counters a geometric grid of simplified forms to nature and landscape painting, unveiling his perception of reality by means of the experience of an incomplete urbanization, bearing features of social isolation. The houses, made with straight lines and composed by few elements, seem to accumulate themselves over the landscape, like overlapping layers composing an almost flat whole, stuck in the foreground of the painting. The construction of the landscape, with spots of color in defined territories, recalls fresco paintings made in the walls of Italian churches during the Renaissance, a context the artist had known and admires deeply.

— MASP Curatorial Team, 2017

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