Ennio Finzi - Untitled - MSAN001

When the Spatialist movement was founded with the drafting of the Manifesto Blanco in 1946, Ennio Finzi was fifteen years old, and therefore could not officially join that group of artists. However, much of Finzi's research followed the aesthetic theories developed by Lucio Fontana and other Spatialist artists, resulting in a coherent and original body of work. Spatialism posed itself primarily as a question of how artworks were perceived. The movement's aim was to definitively transcend the surface of the canvas for a perceptual experience that definitively engaged Space. Hence, the use of electronic technical devices, employed for their ability to radiate energy, or the use of gestural techniques, such as holes or slashes, aimed at breaking through the surface of the work and invading it with the accidentality of reality.

In Ennio Finzi's interpretation, the interaction between artwork and space occurs essentially through music. For this artist, the perception of color involves not only sight, but also hearing, because color has a sound. For this reason, much of Finzi's work is an exploration of the rhythm provided by color, with dystonic effects also linked to Shoemberg's atonal music or jazz improvisation. This is clearly evident in a work like this one, in which the aesthetic, essentially informal, is configured as a search for chromatic harmonies and balances. The work is divided into different portions that, through color, offer various stimuli to the viewer, engaging their real dimension. These chromatic harmonies are somewhat reminiscent of the abstract expressionism of an artist like Mark Rothko, but for Ennio Finzi, everything takes on a more playful dimension, evident in every one of his works.

Ennio Finzi was born in Venice in 1931. He began exhibiting in 1949 at the Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation in Venice, where he held his first solo exhibition in 1956. He participated, by invitation, in the Rome Quadrennial in 1959 and 2000, and in the 42nd Venice Biennale in 1986. Worthy of note, in addition to the 1980 retrospective at the Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation in Venice, are exhibitions at the Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Palazzo Forti (Verona) and at the Galleria d'Arte Moderna Palazzo dei Diamanti (Ferrara). In 2002, a major retrospective entitled Ennio Finzi, Venice and the Postwar Avant-gardes was held in Rome and Spoleto. His last major solo exhibition was held in 2005 in Urbino in the rooms of the Palazzo Ducale. In 2006 and 2007, together with the works of Gino Morandis, he exhibited in Prague, at the Manes Foundation, and in Naples in the rooms of the Palazzo Reale. He has taught at the Academy of Venice, the city where he lives and works.

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