Piero Ruggeri - Napoleon

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.

Piero Ruggeri's informal art develops through a perceptive exercise. The artist begins by acquiring sensory data and reworks it according to his highly personal sensibility. Thus, his vision of the world almost definitively loses all contact with phenomenal reality, translating into a pure transposition of matter and gesture. Piero Ruggeri seeks to capture the impression of reality, but this leads him to completely disintegrate form and translate his perception directly into pictorial gesture. Ruggeri is capable of creating a chromatic material that seems alive, dynamic, and constantly evolving. In the intensity of colors that merge into a living organism, existence pulsates in bright, sudden flashes.

Piero Ruggeri (Turin, 1930 – Avigliana, 2009) was an Italian artist. He graduated from the Albertina Academy of Fine Arts in 1956 and participated in the Venice Biennale that same year. Ruggeri's work aligns with the artistic trends of Informalism and was later influenced by Abstract Expressionism. He participated in several editions of the Venice Biennale and the Rome Quadrennial. He also won national and international awards, including the Morgan's Prize and the Paint Prize, the Solomon Guggenheim Prize in New York, the Marzotto Prize, the São Paulo Prize, the Fiorino Prize, and the Lissone Prize. He held numerous solo and group exhibitions both in Italy and abroad.

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