Ugo Maffi - Letter from a Forgotten Queen

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.

Ugo Maffi's pictorial production typically blends figurative and abstract elements. In many of his works, the symbolic-gestural component predominates, definitively defining his poetics of the incommunicability typical of the Informal movement. Even in terms of execution, the artist adopts a decidedly gestural, abstract-expressionist approach. Thus, the hermetic nature of this representation prevails, transfiguring the painter's perception into a system of signs that leaves the viewer with no reference points. Another fundamental component in Ugo Maffi's research is chromatic, where the painted surface is matched to a predominant color or calibrated to elegant harmonies with a profoundly spiritual meaning.

Ugo Maffi was born in Lodi in 1939, where he lives and works. He is a painter, engraver, and ceramic artist. He studied under Oskar Kokoschka, then took courses in lithography and for several years at the Academy of Fine Arts. His work was included in the "Dizionario - guida ai pittori e scultori moderni e contemporanei" (Dictionary - Guide to Modern and Contemporary Painters and Sculptors), published by "Il Mondo" and "Capital" in 1981. He was recommended for Painting by Bolaffi-Mondadori in 1985. He was also recommended in the "Giornale dell'arte - January 1995" as the best Italian painter of 1994 by Enzo Carli. As a ceramic artist, he continues the Lodi tradition, infusing it with new research; his work includes, among others, the large polychrome ceramic and graffito cement stele dedicated to the Resistance and located in the center of the city of Lodi, 1983.

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