MILAN - Set up for the centenary of his birth, the exhibition open from today 8 October to 23 January, has above all the objective of rediscovering an unpublished Giovanni Testori.
The Giovanni Testori Association has in fact recovered an important nucleus of paintings and drawings re-emerged after twenty years of oblivion, created by the artist who, in addition to being a painter, was a writer, poet, playwright, director, critic, among the most alive and controversies of the twentieth century.
Inaugurated at Casa Testori, in Novate Milanese (Milan) where Testori was born in 1923, the exhibition 'Testori Ritrovato' traces the path of the artist who, as a painter, makes his bones on landscape and still life, in the bombed and then liberated Milan. questions about the return of avant-garde painting in churches, arriving at the great Crucifixion, one of the masterpieces of those years exhibited and the last work created, before abandoning painting for 20 years.
To throw himself headlong back between brushes and canvases in the 70s, up to the total rediscovery of white, overturning the chromatic concept of non-color.
The white as light mist of Female Nudes, or the one from which domestic vegetables and flowers emerge, described as archaeological finds cleaned from the earth, or plucked animals,
as if they were lying on the marble table abundantly floured by a cook.
Freshness and restlessness, both ancestral and domestic, which makes these still lifes perhaps the most surprising works of the Novatese exhibition.
The exhibition continues on the first floor of the house, permanently dedicated to Testori, who died in 1993, to his archive and his art library.
These are the rooms in which to discover, through works, photographs and unpublished documents, the genesis of Testorian painting, in its inseparable link with literary production.