Giovanni Testori. 1949's Crucifixion. The rediscovered drawings

During the 40s, Giovanni Testori (1923-1993) was better known as artist much more than writer; supportive with the Milanese school ("Corrente"), he was work partner of Ennio Morlotti, Bruno Cassinari and Renato Guttuso.

In 1948, Testori carried out four frescos on the rib vaults of the presbyterial dome of the Church of San Carlo al Corso in Milan. The top of the convent didn't appreciate this work of art: a specific commission proclaimed the "contrast with the spaces of the Church" and arranged the covering of it. Testori was bitterly disappointed: he experienced a deep insatisfaction which took him to destroy most of his paintings and gave up painting for almost twenty years.

The exhibition "1949's Crucifixion. The rediscovered drawings" comes into being from the latest, important discovery of 26 drawings which are showing the creative process resulted in the frescos of San Carlo. This precious group of paper, unique case in the pictorial production of Testori, permits to follow step by step its creative process, in a moment of big, formal and iconographic research.

Furthermore, in the exhibition is shown one of the rare works of art survived from the destruction: the Crucifixion, signed and dated in 1949, which represents the most important painting of Giovanni Testori.

Curator: Davide Dall'Ombra.

The exhibition is realized in collaboration with the Associazione Giovanni Testori.

Further information: http://www.mart.trento.it/