Renato Volpini - Untitled

The devastation wrought by World War II 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, which led to 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 materials from which their works are composed.

In this painting, Renato Volpini appears to embrace an 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 Volpini's action goes even further, relying on no compositional reference other than his own gesture.

Renato Volpini, born in Naples in 1934, trained in Urbino in the 1950s and became a member of the Informal movement. He later turned his artistic research to Pop Art. He participated several times in the Venice Biennale and the Rome Quadrennial. After a period of silence, he returned to experimentation, exploring the latest means of digital reproduction.

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