Auro Albertini - Stories No. 2

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.

Beginning in the 1960s, artistic languages, not only in Italy, led to the abandonment of traditional supports such as canvas for painting or materials for sculpting. Artists' desire was to make a clean sweep and start from scratch with a new conception of artistic practice, open to new materials that could incorporate different perceptual stimuli (such as tactile sensation) and have a more direct connection with reality. Hence the use of discarded materials, or those derived from technology, assembled into compositions and installations. Auro Albertini's Informal art is part of this desire to subvert the traditional rules of painting by invading the viewer's reality. However, rather than turning to different materials, he resolves everything with the same pictorial medium. Thus, through dense and repeated stratification, the artist almost builds a wall on the canvas, a three-dimensional, sculptural image of the hermeticism and incommunicability of his Informal art. This impassable wall is crossed by Albertini's pictorial gestures which, always through the medium of matter, leaves marks, wounds, on the surface, in a decidedly existential interpretation of his artistic style.

Auro Albertini is an artist originally from Forlì, born in 1927. His pictorial research has manifested itself in a decidedly informal aesthetic that uses material to give a hermetic and existentialist interpretation of reality.

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