HOMMAGE TO ENNIO FINZI

From 17 May to 6 October 2024
Venice, Ca’ Pesaro – International Gallery of Modern Art
First Floor
Curated by Elisabetta Barisoni, Michele Beraldo

One of the most radical artists of the Italian Twentieth century, Ennio Finzi was able to subvert the informal language of the postwar period by pursuing an unusual research based on the atonal and timbric values of color, representing for this reason a model of painting that Luciano Caramel has defined as “unusual”.

Ennio Finzi, “Giallo su grigio”, 1957

Vice versa, he was also able to trace a less excited path and more subtended by perceptive reflection, conducting an in-depth investigation into the intrinsic structures of form, in an attempt perhaps to tame and “bend” its own ungovernable contradictions.

From this concise overview, we have chosen to represent the Venetian artist with some of his most emblematic works of the 1950s, such as the “geometric” Chromatic Scales, where the intermittent appearance of color unfolds in limpid scores of vertical bands; Rhythms Vibration, where yellow flows slender and threadlike in rapid, iridescent temporal progressiveness; or such as White on White and Gray on Gray, where light is revealed as the spiritual broadcaster of a thinned matter, with its labile and indistinctly suspended boundaries.

Entrance with the Museum’s hours and ticket.