Mattia Moreni

The exhibition that Galleria Il Ponte is dedicating to the paintings of Mattia Moreni is a summary in twelve works of the painting career of this Italian maestro, who from the 1950s to his death in 1999 always showed that he was an “incorrect” artist, who systematically ignored the rites and conventions of official culture. Moreni painted canvases that are punches in the stomach, indecent and insolent questions that still vibrate in the air, provocations that still burn today, supported by the irony with which they were thrown (Antonio Vanni, Regressivo Consapevole. Perché?).
As P. Restany writes in 1960 in Lyrisme et abstraction (Milan, Ed. Apollinaire): Moreni is able to combine the impulsive violence of his gestures with the ineffable greatness of his cosmic vision: the explosions of instinct are tempered by a profound humanity. Moreni’s neo-expressionism avoids gratuitous excess: a tight grip and emotional truth are the exceptional characteristics that he went on to maintain over the next forty years of his abundant painting career.