Artists of the 20th century compared: Enrico Allimandi and Sergio Albano on display in Rubiana

The Pinacoteca Comunale Francesco Tabusso in Rubiana (Turin) is hosting from July 2 to 24 the exhibition I volti dell’anima e le geometrie fantastiche, a double retrospective dedicated to painters Enrico Allimandi and Sergio Albano, curated by Stefano Morabito and Francesco Albano.

“Almost children of the same era (1906, Allimandi; 1934, Albano),” explains journalist and art critic Monica Col, "the two artists are for certain representatives of the same introspective painting that is expressed in different ways in each of them. In the paintings of both of them one finds the same construction of figurative elements completely renewed. The same use of reality to express one’s personality in paintings that become like autobiographical cameos. Allimandi and Albano are ’inside’ their works. They self-project us ’inside’ their lives, ’inside’ their feelings, ’inside’ their experiences, yet leave us surprisingly ’outside’ from being able to fit them into a one-perspective view.

Allimandi offers paintings bathed in striking colors of glacial blues, warm grays, intense and passionate reds that seem to merge into a single shadow and semblance of warmth. Allimandi is a dreamy futurist, a fantastic visionary: difficult to fit him into one definition. He starts from real images, but the windows open onto almost unreal lights. They are unreal, enigmatic faces, yet deeply cast in the real. The two faces of the soul, filtered by a deep sense of mystery.

Albano also works between experience and dream, between real and unreal. His paintings also project into an autobiographical experience, but in a completely different way. While in Allimandi the lived experience becomes the force of shadow, in Albano the force is in light and geometries. Albano is the royal road to geometry. His painting is a continuous absolute of surfaces, straight lines, solids, but out of this mask of absoluteness comes a piercing, unforgiving, cold and enigmatic gaze. Albano succeeds in joining the forces of the most intense emotion, autobiographical memory and geometric expression in a single questing march toward the absolute. From the ’display of Fantastic Geometries the artist catapults us in a leap to the introspection of men and things.

Albano and Allimandi are thus the two sides of the same coin. There where the medal is man: with his lights and shadows; his absolute definitions and rational schematisms. The fruit of irrational and unconscious thoughts that give life to the faces of the soul and fantastic geometries."

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Pictured: a work by Enrico Allimandi

Artists of the 20th century compared: Enrico Allimandi and Sergio Albano on display in Rubiana

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