THE COLOR FOUND IN A SECRET CORNER - ENNIO FINZI

Ennio Finzi (Venice 1931) After a brief attendance at the Venice Art Institute, he was captivated by the fascinating discovery of Cubism's structural upheaval, which allowed him to transcend the realities of representation. His encounter with Atanasio Soldati influenced his later works, characterized by bright colors and rigorous formal balance. This gave rise to his first "inventions," in which rhythm, color, light, and timbre assumed the role of fundamental elements and became a fundamental constant throughout his research. During those years, Finzi was significantly influenced by Virgilio Guidi, who brought with him the ideological force of his creative thought, and by Emilio Vedova, who brought with him the impetus of his gestures that attacked the surface. The discovery of twelve-tone music led him to master the principle of "dissonance." Suddenly, the practice of color freed from all tonal relationships and charged exclusively with the function of timbre opened up vast new horizons, so much so that from that moment until the late 1950s, his work would be an obsessive exploration of the semantics of gesture, light, and timbre. In the late 1950s, marked by the groundbreaking insights of Lucio Fontana, whom Finzi met in Milan at one of his exhibitions at the Apollinaire Gallery, the gestural turbulence and expressive urgency subsided, and a more reflective dimension took over, moving toward transcending painting itself, drawing closer to Gestalt theories on the phenomenology of perception. The principles of optical art informed his research on optical suggestion until 1978. In 1980, painting reclaimed the dominant space with a successive alternation of color and non-color, light and darkness, competing for the surface of the work. Black was positioned as the light of darkness, of emptiness, of silence, and led him to probe the most secret resonances of the nonexistent on the invisibility of painting itself. 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 Quadriennale in 1959 and 2000 and in the 42nd Venice Art Biennale in 1986. His last major solo exhibition was held in 2005 in Urbino in the rooms of the Palazzo Ducale.

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