Ennio Finzi (1931) - Alternando lo sguardo

Ennio Finzi
Pastel on black cardboard, 35x50 cm
Signature and date bottom right; title bottom left
Splendid work by Ennio Finzi with authentic photo
Very rare and high-quality work
1990s

Ennio Finzi was considered the last living spatialist painter; in fact, as he himself recalls, in 1951 he was only 16 and could not be registered in the spatialism movement as Tancredi Parmeggiani (1931 - 1964) was, who at the time was twenty years old[3].

The friendship and artistic collaboration with the great painter Tancredi, which was celebrated also by important critical writings and exhibitions[4], certainly led him to move among some of the greatest exponents of painting and culture of the Fifties and Sixties, such as Giuseppe Capogrossi, Ettore Sottsass, Umbro Apollonio, and to work in close conjunction with the main Venetian masters of that movement, such as Virgilio Guidi, Riccardo Licata, or Emilio Vedova. It was always Tancredi who introduced him to the American collector Peggy Guggenheim[5]. For all the Fifties, Finzi pursued a fundamentally spatialist research focused on the use of color and the distonic and atonal effects[6], also interpreting the new musical currents of those years, from Schoenbergian atonality to the