Tintoretto, the artist who killed painting. In April at the cinema

OnApril 11, 12 and 13, 2022, the biographical documentary Tintoretto will be released in Italian cinemas, after official selection in major international Art Film Festivals such as FIFA in Montréal, Canada and the Beirut Art Film Festival. The Artist Who Killed Painting, which features an international co-production (Kublai Film, Videe, ZetaGroup, Gebrueder Beetz Filmproduktion) in collaboration with the Franco-German television network ARTE, direction by Erminio Perocco and music by Carlo Raiteri and Teho Teardo. The film takes viewers to 16th-century Venice, intending to evoke the atmospheres of the time, the city’s lights on the water and the colors of the precious pigments that reached the Serenissima like nowhere else and which Jacopo, the son of a dyer, knew how to use with extraordinary skill.

Restless and stubborn, determined to pursue his career, Tintoretto wanted to set himself against the style and fashions of the time, flaking the brushstroke, creating different perspectives within the same painting. Tintoretto as an ante litteram film director; Tintoretto who, from his experience in the theater (where he had worked), was able to transpose into painting the scenic action and the expressive force of body movements; Tintoretto able to break the rules of painting by combining the power of Michelangelo’s drawing and Titian’s palette. It is the overwhelming force of his innovations, the imaginative power, the expressionist stroke of his painting, the absolute originality with which he was able to interpret the traditional iconographies that so appealed to artists such as Rubens and El Greco, up to Max Beckmann, Jackson Pollock, and Emilio Vedova. Modernity and revolutionary spirit of a brilliant artist that the documentary aims to make known. And then the huge canvases made for Venetian public buildings, schools and churches, to the Doge’s Palace the heart of power and city government. From the powerful and revolutionary St. Mark Frees the Slave of 1548 to the Presentation of the Virgin in the Temple (1551 - 1556) made for the Madonna dell’Orto; from the monumental Crucifixion (1565) in the Scuola Grande di San Rocco to the astonishing and gigantic canvas with Paradise (1588) for the Sala del Maggior Consiglio in the Doge’s Palace.

The documentary features contributions from leading scholars such as Robert Echols (curator of the last major exhibition in Venice on the artist), Roland Krischel, Antonio Manno, Stefania Mason, Gabriele Matino, Miguel Falomir (director of the Prado in Madrid), Fabrizio Gazzarri, Mario Infelise, Roberto Mazzetto, Luciano Pezzollo, and Jorge R. Pomboscrutando. Directing is Erminio Perocco, a Venetian filmmaker and creative who comes to art films after many successes in the world of advertising and commercial directing.

At this link the trailer of the documentary film.

Tintoretto, the artist who killed painting. In April at the cinema

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