Enzo Fornara - Memories

Surrealist aesthetics emerged around the 1920s and encompassed all fields of artistic research. Specifically, in the visual arts, Surrealism sought to explore the human subconscious and translate it into artwork through a mechanical writing process based on dream analysis. Consequently, Surrealist artworks propose the representation of a dreamlike dimension, completely dissociated from reality. However, this representation often relies on a hyperrealistic formal rendering, paradoxically accentuating the illusory and ambiguous nature of the surreal. The Surrealism developed by Enzo Fornara, however, seems to take a different direction. His works are based on automatic writing and the accumulation of heterogeneous elements, but everything is contained within a geometric dimension influenced by Cubist decomposition. A prominent feature of Enzo Fornara's subjects is always the female figure, present in different positions in each work. Depicted in a generic way, the viewer can identify it with a reference figure (mother, wife) by introducing it into the work itself to which it is the woman who gives life.

Enzo Fornare's compositions are always highly complex, presenting a vast variety and quantity of elements within the space of the work, whose heterogeneity induces a strong sense of alienation. One can certainly speak of Surrealism in the artist's unrestrained construction of his world. However, Enzo Fornare's aesthetic could also be traced back to Metaphysical Art (and the reference to a work by De Chirico at the center of the painting is highly significant in this regard) due to the highly rational character of his dreamlike world. This rationality is fueled by the presence of various geometric elements, inserted, moreover, within a mechanically constructed space, indebted to Cubist decompositional analysis. The arrangement of all the elements reflects this remarkable geometric spirit, which, combined with the implausibility of the subjects, produces an even more alienating effect. Formally, too, there's a strong inclination toward geometry, resulting in a tendency toward two-dimensional space, where objects are constructed with a bold black line that defines their volumes. In terms of color, Enzo Fornara stands out for his bold polychromes of bright hues, always seeking an overall balance within the work's overall structure.

Enzo Fornara was born in Cerano in 1925. He trained at the Accademia Albertina in Turin and then at the Accademia di Brera in Milan. His teachers were Felice Casorati and Carlo Carrà. His pictorial production is distinguished by a research that ranges between Surrealism and Metaphysics, in a strongly geometric formal apparatus that harks back to the Cubist avant-garde.

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