Guido Pajetta's works in Milan as part of the exhibition Myths and Figures between Form and Color

From July 5 to September 1, 2019 , the exhibition Guido Pajetta. Myths and Figures between Form and Color, promoted and produced by the City of Milan - Culture, Palazzo Reale and the Guido Pajetta Foundation.

In his long career, Guido Pajetta (Monza, 1898 - Milan, 1987) traversed almost the entirety of the last century, encountering its most important styles and figures, but despite his numerous artistic associations and undeniable influences, he remains an anomalous figure within this context. Indeed, he is not interested in binding himself and identifying with a style, so much so that he distances himself from any recognized artistic movement in order not to be limited in his art making. Rather, he is an artist who paints driven by his own unconscious, his own restlessness, his own instincts and demons.

Pajetta’s painterly gesture, at times light and quick, at other times biting and marked, changes constantly. But if in the course of his career the artist changes the form of his painting and always remains poised between figurative and abstract, this is not the case for the content, all of which can be traced back to the search for self and self in history. Pajetta was able to employ many languages according to what was his goal of inner analysis.

A personality as fascinating as he was complex, Pajetta can only be rediscovered and appreciated by starting from his being other and unique than the context in which he lived and worked. Traversing vertically almost the entire twentieth century, he can be placed side by side with the great names with whom he collaborated and be taken as a starting point for investigating the artistic and social environments that generated and influenced both the Milanese and Italian landscape of the last century. Nevertheless, he remains an eccentric and free figure in his own artistic investigation.

Divided by thematic areas, the exhibition pays attention as much to Pajetta’s relations with the Milanese artistic scene linked to the Novecento and especially Sironi, as to his later desire to enter into a relationship with European, and especially French, production, with a specific interest in Cubism and Surrealism. It was precisely in this sphere that Pajetta developed a precise focus on a realism of introspective brand that would accompany him over time, facilitated by an italic and antimimetic style, to which the adoption of acrylic color from 1967 on certainly benefited.

Pajetta was, until the end, an artist driven by impulses that led him to deal with motifs, sometimes lyrical sometimes dramatic, generated by emotions and authentic experiences because they were the fruit of his passions and anxieties.

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In the image: a work by Guido Pajetta

Guido Pajetta's works in Milan as part of the exhibition Myths and Figures between Form and Color

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