Aligi Sassu - Triton in Fregene

Born in Milan in 1912 to a Sardinian father and an Emilian mother, Aligi Sassu was one of the protagonists of the post-war renewal of Italian painting, together with the artists of the Milanese Corrente group—from Treccani to Cassinari, Morlotti, Guttuso, De Grada, etc.—with whom he joined in the late 1930s, following his early Futurist experiences of 1927-1929 and after carefully assimilating the lessons of European post-Impressionist painting during two successive stays in Paris in 1934 and 1935, when he had already attracted the attention of critics with his Uomini rossi and his Cyclists . It was in the cultural climate of Corrente , animated by passionate discussions on realism and the role of the artist, that Sassu's artistic orientation matured and took shape, marked by his awareness of being an anti-fascist and militant member of the Resistance.

His painting stems from an ethical need for expressive freedom, realized through an extraordinarily free use of color as a constitutive element of form itself, endowed with symbolic value intimately connected to the artist's inner world. Herein lies the poetic strength of his Red Men , the Argonauts , the crucifixions, the councils, the portraits, the bullfights, the horses, the landscapes, in which an inexhaustible coloristic imagination, unconcerned with realistic concerns, is linked to a constant attention to the social values ​​of the artwork. Painter, sculptor, poet, creator of religious mosaics and monumental fresco cycles, ceramist (his is the gigantic 150-metre ceramic mural, The Myths of the Mediterranean , created in Brussels in 1993 for the headquarters of the European Parliament), engraver and illustrator of literary masterpieces (his 112 illustrations of the Divine Comedy are famous), Sassu has been the object of constant critical and public interest in recent decades in Italy and abroad.

In 1972, he married Colombian soprano Helenita Olivares, whom he had met in Albisola in 1959. In 1996, he donated 362 works to the city of Lugano, which today form the core of the Aligi Sassu and Helenita Olivares Foundation. He died in July 2000 at his villa on the island of Pollença, Mallorca, where he had resided since 1963.

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