Mattia Moreni Italian, 1920-1999

Mattia Moreni (Pavia, Italy 1920 - Brisighella, Italy 1999)

Born in Pavia in 1920, he studied at the Turin Academy with F. Casorati.

After expressionist beginnings in line with the influence of Fauves, Moreni approached post-cubist solutions by reworking Picasso and Léger, developing abstract-concrete forms in conjunction with the Group of Eight.

Open to European innovation, these artists abandoned the figurative for abstract poetics. Later, Moreni took a further step towards the Informal and Neo-Expressionism.

In 1947 and 1949, he held two solo exhibitions at the Million Gallery in Milan.

From 1948 to 1960, Moreni participated in the Venice Biennale. In 1956, with a solo exhibition; in 1954, he was awarded the Spoleto Prize by Francesco Arcangeli.

After the informal period, he returned to including objects in his works. Decay, death and splendour become the main themes he addressed. The human being is represented in the forms of watermelons, symbols and computer hybrids, as humanoids.

His latest works testify to technological-electronic conditioning also through the titles of his works.

Moreni died in 1999 in Brisighella (RA), where he settled in 1966.

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