Gianni Dova - Untitled

The work draws on an Informal aesthetic language. The devastation wrought by the Second World War 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 exploration focuses instead on the material or gesture with which they compose their works.

The informality in this work by Gianni Dova develops through a perceptive exercise. The artist begins by acquiring sensory data and reworks it according to her highly personal sensibility. Thus, even a composition that vaguely recalls the still life genre almost definitively loses all contact with phenomenal reality, becoming a pure transposition of matter and gesture. Gianni Dova, in effect, seeks to capture the impression of the object, but this leads her to completely disintegrate the form and translate her perception directly into pictorial gesture. In this painting, the artist is able to breathe life into a chromatic material that seems alive, dynamic, and constantly evolving. In the intensity of the colors that merge into a living organism, existence pulsates in bright, sudden flashes.

Gianni Dova was born in Rome in 1925 and died in Pisa in 1991. He moved to Milan at sixteen and attended the Brera Art School. He later began associating with the artists who gathered around the magazine Corrente, published by Ernesto Treccani, and in 1946 he endorsed the manifesto "Beyond Guernica." The following year, he joined the Spatialist Movement, signing several of its manifestos. He later joined the Nuclear Painting movement with Enrico Baj and Sergio Dangelo.

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