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ERNESTO TRECCANI

Antonella Colaninno

A little over a month after the first anniversary of the death of Ernesto Treccani disappeared il 27 novembre 2009 all'età di 89 anni, questo blog vuole rendere omaggio ad un' importante personalità della cultura italiana e del mondo dell'arte.

Ernesto Treccani (Milano, 26 agosto 1920 – Milano, 27 novembre 2009) è stato il fondatore di “Corrente di vita giovanile”o più comunemente “Corrente”, il quindicinnale nato nel 1938 da un gruppo di artisti tra i quali Birolli, Vedova, Badodi, Morlotti, Valenti, Cassinari, Migneco, Guttuso e gli scultori Paganin, Cerchi, Broggini e Manzù. Il programma di questi artisti era di promuovere una nuova filosofia che rivendicasse la libertà dell’arte contro la dittatura culturale. Essi rappresentavano le speranze di un group of artists who, in the wake of German art were an instrument of political and social commitment. In those years, the Picasso painting "Guernica" (1937), a large canvas in black and white in the theatricality of the composition expressed despair at the horrors of the English Civil War, a desperate cry against the dictatorship that oppressed the freedom of peoples. These young Italian artists participating in an expressionist language that told the anxiety and pain of war through indirect religious themes such as the crucifixion and the deposition, but is also expressed through issues related to everyday life. Italian art breathes in these years a sense of human emotion to the tragic events of mankind, following a path of common action with great freedom to participate, without any ideological or theoretical premise. Treccani was also editor of "Realism" and one of the most important artists of the realist movement in Italian. In 1949 he held his first solo exhibition of paintings in the gallery The Million Milan with a monograph by Duilio Morosini. Fifty years he has been engaged in an intense exhibition between Italy and Europe, participate in Venice Biennale and cultural events in London and New York. In recent years he moved to a land that becomes a Calabria important source of inspiration for his work. In the sixties created five large paintings inspired by the novel "The Moon and the Bonfires" by Cesare Pavese but also to move on the front showed great interest in social protest movements. The 1976 represents a milestone for his career as an artist committed and sensitive to cultural changes, the Soviet Ministry of Culture organized an exhibition in the museums of the city of Volgograd, Moscow and Leningrad.
The following year he founded the Foundation Treccani Current, with the aim of documenting the location of Italian realism, beginning with the birth of the journal called Current.