Cinzio Cavallarin - Jute with Blue Mountain

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.

Beginning in the 1960s, artistic languages, not only in Italy, led to the abandonment of traditional media such as canvas for painting or materials for sculpting. Artists' desire was to make a clean sweep and start from scratch with a new conception of artistic practice, open to new materials that could incorporate different perceptual stimuli (such as tactile sensation) and have a more direct connection with reality. Hence the use of discarded materials, or those from the world of technology, assembled into compositions and installations. The present work is part of a series in which the multifaceted artist Cinzio Cavallarin focuses his research on precisely this type of experimentation. These works, attributable to an informal poetics, employ a wide variety of techniques and materials, reflecting the artist's urgent need for concreteness and connection with reality.

Cinzio Cavallarin was born in 1942 in Chioggia, but lives and works in Prato. His artistic production draws on various influences from the contemporary avant-garde, from Abstraction to Cubism, from Informalism to Expressionism.

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