Giovanni Montevago - 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 resulted in a total rejection of any visual language, which resulted 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 these paintings, Giovanni Montevago demonstrates his commitment to the Informal aesthetic. The composition of this work, in fact, seems to set aside issues of form in favor of those concerning gesture and material. It is the artist's gestures in particular that emerge in this painting, where the thick, structural brushstrokes, combined with the thinner ones interacting in the foreground, suggest an instinctive approach to Action Painting. But Montevago's action goes even further, relying on no compositional reference other than his own gesture.

Giovanni Montevago was born in Catania in 1929. He graduated as an industrial technical expert, which influenced his interest in technical drawing in his artistic production. His passion for painting grew with the master Miluzzo and manifested itself in several group exhibitions in his hometown. In the early 1970s, he moved to Milan, then the art capital, where his first exhibition was at the Galleria Il Vertice, thanks to the interest of Navarra, who also sparked the interest of other gallery owners such as Alberto Schubert and the Ponte Rosso gallery, which also dedicated a small monograph to the master. In 1977, Montevago decided to try exhibiting abroad, and his first stop was Nice.

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