Memo - Domenico Fornasari - Star Flowers

Flowers as a subject in themselves began to appear in still lifes, a genre that emerged in the early 17th century. Subsequently, painters, especially the Impressionists, increasingly focused on the floral world as an extraordinary opportunity to capture vibrant colors and light. Thus, flowers began to appear not only in vases, but also immersed in their natural landscape. While initially a pretext for painters to attempt photographic reproductions of reality, with contemporary art, the subject of flowers also became a means of interpreting reality. In Memo Fornasari's work, the subject of flowers is reiterated in numerous works, precisely as a tool to develop the artist's perception, which expands from the sensory realm to a cosmic dimension.

The defining characteristic of Memo Fornasari's artistic production lies in the painter's gaze, which only seemingly focuses on the small things around us, like flowers, but which actually gazes toward broader, even cosmic, horizons. The subject of flowers is truly exemplary of Fornasari's pictorial conception. He begins with sensory data, but these are reworked by his pictorial gestures, which abstract the forms. Thus, the representation becomes nothing more than the transposition of the artist's purest perception, which he communicates directly through his gestures. Thus, Fornasari, starting from the figurative representation of flowers, can arrive at even informal results, whereby the work completely detaches itself from reality to acquire a much broader symbolic significance. This work, however, still demonstrates a fairly strong connection with the life-like representation of flowers, demonstrating how Fornasari approaches this subject with varying degrees of oscillation between sensory data and abstraction. However, the artist's gesture remains a fundamental component in representing flowers by leveraging an expressionistic application of color.

Memo: Domenico Fornasari was born in Mantua on December 2, 1910, and died in Verona on October 11, 1982. From a young age, the figurative arts held a fascination for him. He studied Fine Arts and refined his artistic sensibility through interest in architecture, theater, cinema, and interior design, thus completing his refined aesthetic sense. He participated in the Futurist movement at a very young age, exhibiting his works at the Futurist International in Rome in 1932 alongside Balla, Sironi, Prampolini, and Depero. During this period, Fornasari participated in numerous avant-garde exhibitions in Italy and abroad, always in line with the great names of contemporary painting. In 1939, he executed several frescoes in the parish churches of Cerese di Virgilio and Bagnolo San Vito, commissioned by the Curia of Mantua. He participated in numerous exhibitions both in Italy and abroad. In 1978 he received the International Oscar in Milan where he was included in the Community of European Artists group together with Bay, Burri, Brindisi, Campigli, Fontana, Fiume, Fantuzzi, Guidi and Morlotti.

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