Archivio Casorati
FRANCESCO CASORATI – OLTRE LO SPECCHIO

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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”.