Claudio Cintoli - 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.

In this painting, we can appreciate the experimental tension that drives Claudio Cintoli's artistic production. This work moves between an informal style, both symbolic and gestural, and a sort of décollage à la Mimmo Rotella. Structurally, the canvas is covered with a layer of white paint on which the painter leaves some indecipherable marks, a symptom of the incommunicability of the informal style. On this white layer, the painter leaves lacerations through which the underlying layer, a collage of newspapers, can be glimpsed. In this way, the poetics of the object also comes into play, with the reuse of discarded objects introduced into the artwork.

Claudio Cintoli was born in Imola in 1935 and died in Rome in 1978. Throughout his career, he experimented with a wide variety of art forms: in addition to painting, he was also a set designer, director, video artist, and performer. His first solo exhibition was held in Recanati in 1958, followed by another at Galleria La Medusa in Rome in the same year. He traveled extensively throughout Europe, especially to England and France, and in 1965 he moved to New York, where he made animated films with Lindberg Production. In 1968, back in Rome, he embarked on a frenetic performance program at Galleria L'Attico (Annodare, Chiodo fisso, Rimbalzare, Puntellititi, and Colare colore).

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