Aurelio Barbalonga - Untitled

The work draws on an Informal aesthetic language. The devastation wrought by World War II left a profound mark on Western civilization, which in the visual arts also resulted in an inability to communicate. For some artists, this challenge led to a complete rejection of any visual language, resulting in the birth of Informal Art. The various Informal movements are certainly connected to American Abstract Expressionism, especially with regard to the gestural component, but they go further in their rejection of any figurative element, even geometric. Their research focuses instead on the material from which their works are composed.

The informal art of artist Aurelio Barbalonga develops through a perceptive exercise. The artist begins by acquiring sensory data and reworks it according to his highly personal perception. Thus, the representation of the world almost definitively loses all contact with phenomenal reality, translating into a pure transposition of matter and gesture. Barbalonga seeks to capture the impression of the world he perceives, but this leads him to completely disintegrate form and translate his perception directly into pictorial gesture. In this painting, the artist is able to create a chromatic material that seems alive, dynamic, and constantly evolving. In the intensity of colors that merge into a living organism, existence pulsates in bright, sudden flashes.

Aurelio Barbalonga was born in Palermo in 1922 and passed away in Bologna in 2003. During the war, he was imprisoned in Greece and participated in the partisan struggle. From 1946, he established various cultural connections in France, England, and the Netherlands. In 1956, he founded an art school in the Marche region. In 1964, he moved to Bologna, where he founded the Schola Pictorum, which enjoyed extraordinary success. He participated in numerous exhibitions both nationally and internationally.

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