Giulio Turcato - Untitled

The work draws on an Informal aesthetic language. 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, 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 research focuses instead on the material from which their works are composed.

Artist Giulio Turcato has expressed his informal language in various aesthetic forms. In this painting, the composition is generated through the artist's various gestures. First, the artist creates a layer of dense, textured green on the surface of the painting, which develops into the third dimension. At this point, the color becomes a true material to be molded, and on this basis, Giulio Turcato's purest gestures can develop. This is expressed in a series of wavy strokes that generate a repetitive rhythm of curved lines. It almost seems like the transfiguration, in pure pictorial gesture, of a hilly landscape. The representation of reality, however, takes on a primordial expressionist power, conveyed most directly by the painter's gesture as he shapes the chromatic material.

Giulio Turcato was born in Mantua in 1912 and died in Rome in 1995. He was one of the most important representatives of Italian Informalism. In 1942, he exhibited at the Venice Biennale. The following year, he moved to Rome, where he frequented Guttuso, Corpora, and Dorazio, and exhibited with Emilio Vedova and Toti Scialoja at the Galleria dello Zodiaco and the Quadriennale. In 1947, he signed the manifesto "Forma 1" and again participated in the Biennale with the Fronte Nuovo delle Arti. Throughout his prolific career, he participated in fifteen group and solo exhibitions at the Venice Biennale.

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