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Archivio Casorati FRANCESCO CASORATI – OLTRE LO SPECCHIO

Dario — Sun, 30 Jul 2023 15:55:49 +0000

Ten years after the passing of Francesco Casorati (1934-2013), the Studio Museo Felice Casorati of Pavarolo pays homage to the famous Turin artist – son of the great master of the twentieth century, Felice Casorati – with the exhibition “Beyond the mirror”, curated by Olga Gambari.
“In the large corpus of works created by Francesco Casorati, I have traced and followed a common thread of surrealist influence, which is particularly evident in his final period. As if, with advanced maturity, he had achieved a freedom and visionaryness that made his painting take flight, dematerializing its boundaries and definitions. As in a mirror that is passed through”, this is how the curator and art critic, Olga Gambari, describes the exhibition.
The curator’s choice was to concentrate on some particularly symbolic nuclei of works: “Representative of an intuitive nature that is also surrealist, certainly not referable to an adhesion to the historical movement, but to the sharing of a kindred spirit that evoked dimensions outside the time, linked to dreamlike and psychoanalytic depths, to decontextualized and re-semantized, and often disturbing, objects, to the subversion of binomials such as above/below, sky/sea, reality/simulacrum. On the other hand, he loved René Magritte as much as Alberto Savinio. Casorati was spontaneously a refined, cultured surrealist artist, with a cerebral and controlled, programmatic nature, with a rarefaction that kept the free rein of the imagination in check in representations of silence, metaphysical, played on two-dimensionality, with a meditative pulsation”.

Archivio Casorati FRANCESCO CASORATI – TRA MAGIA E GEOMETRIA

Dario — Thu, 08 Sep 2022 18:53:05 +0000

The volume traces through thirty works the most significant stages of the artist’s long career, dividing it into four main “focuses” dedicated by choice only to his pictorial works and selected for their emblematic meaning by the curator Elena Pontiggia, who, in her introductory essay to the catalogue, underlines the completely original and independent nature of Francesco Casorati’s artistic career. In fact, it transpires how Francesco Casorati’s painting has the ability to dialogue with contemporary trends without belonging to any of them and even when, at the beginning of the sixties, lines and volumes tend to dissolve in his paintings, they keep their roots and genesis intact figurative and narrative.

Archivio Casorati FRANCESCO CASORATI – LA GRANDE NAVE

Dario — Thu, 28 Jul 2022 18:28:27 +0000

“I can’t tell if I paint the sea because I love it or if I go to sea because I like to paint it. I think my love for the sea dwells as much in the heart of the navigator as in the curious eye of the artist, always looking for new emotions The sea is, for a painter, an inexhaustible source of extraordinary emotions, graphic and pictorial: here there is everything a painter could wish for: infinite variety of colours, shades and tones, constantly changing shapes, signs that they are created, unraveled, merged, in an incessant change. I reserve an important space in my compositions for the inhabitants of the sea – fish, birds, boats. I am fascinated by the contrast between the lightness of these elements and the strength of the sea. working on the fragility of matter fascinates, perhaps because it also reflects my desire to reflect on my own fragility.The sea, like the waves, the ships, the smoke from the chimneys are never copies from life, but graphic elaborations and pictorial that take their cue from reality.” (Francesco Casorati)

Archivio Casorati FRANCESCO CASORATI – OPERA INCISA

Dario — Fri, 06 Jul 2018 15:48:15 +0000

The volume is dedicated to the graphic work of Francesco Casorati and is the catalog of the homonymous retrospective exhibition, set up at the Central Institute for Graphics in Rome which presented to the public a selection of about sixty sheets made with intaglio engraving techniques from 1952 to 1995.
For Francesco Casorati, graphics represented a parallel and never subordinate sphere to painting. On the contrary, one of the most acute interpreters of his work, Luigi Carluccio, noted that the “experiences of the engraver at times surpassed or preceded his work as a painter”. In full freedom and in dialogue with an international context, Casorati explored all the potential of engraved graphics, dedicating himself to multiple experiments on materials, etching methods, signs and colors. Examples, in this sense, are the variants, in print, of “Battaglia” (1954) or the two versions of “Battaglia dei tre cavalieri” (1957). With the same freedom the artist went through the informal period, represented in the exhibition with sheets exhibited in the personal room at the 1962 Venice Biennale, and then the phase close to the committed figuration (“The smoked house”, “The tree and the train” , both from 1967), in which the playful and narrative character that always accompanied the work of Francesco Casorati remains. In the seventies, the theme, rooted in the specularity inherent in printed graphics, of twinning and refraction of the image appeared, taking shape in fabulous bestiaries and dizzying graphic labyrinths. It will be the absolute purity of the sign, the etching “writing”, to dominate the last phase, in which the synthesis does not exclude refined and allusive, at times disturbing, expressive solutions.