Ernesto Tavernari - The One Who Scrutinizes

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. Ernesto Tavernari's Surrealism is a heterogeneous blend of elements, both abstract and figurative, in the creation of an original artistic language. The work in question features one of his most recurring iconographic themes: the figure of the horse.

The work takes the viewer on a journey through the artist's perception, which is expressed on the canvas through a vortex of images and compositional themes. The surface of the work is occupied by the composition of a myriad of themes and subjects born from the artist's creativity. Ernesto Tavarnari's Surrealism is actually distinguished by the presence of deformed images, whereby the subjects elongate or swell, taking on monstrous features, or almost imploding into biomorphic organisms, as in this painting. Tavernari's deformation and biomorphism undoubtedly recall the master of Surrealism, Salvador Dalí, but unlike the Catalan painter, Tavernari eschews an objective and concrete pictorial form, favoring instead a synthetic, almost abstract approach. In this case, the reference is to post-Cubism, where the combination of accentuated synthesis and decomposition of the subject leads to the surreal results found in the work of Pablo Picasso from Guernica onward. Thus, in Tavernari too, space is decontextualized, the pictorial sign is gestural and summary in some parts, the entire representation is agitated.

Ernesto Tavernari was born in Lucca in 1911, but moved to Milan in his twenties, where he studied at Brera and worked almost until his death in 2007. A student of Achille Funi, over a career spanning nearly 80 years, he collaborated with the greatest Italian painters and sculptors of the last century, from Carlo Carrà to Lucio Fontana. He participated in important exhibitions and exhibited with gallery owners such as Carlo Cardazzo.

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