Marconi Foundation opens its doors to its third exhibition dedicated to Emilio Tadini

After Emilio Tadini 1960-1985. The Eye of Painting in 2007 and Emilio Tadini 1985-1997. Refugees, Philosophers, the City, the Night in 2012, the Marconi Foundation in Milan presents a new exhibition dedicated to the Milanese artist and intellectual Emilio Tadini (Milan, 1927 - 2002). It is Emilio Tadini 1967-1972. Before the eyes, behind the gaze, which focuses on the beginnings of Tadini’s artistic production from 1967 to 1972, that is, from the first cycle Life of Voltaire, which marks the birth of his pictorial language, to Archeology.
In that five-year period the artist’s pictorial activity is particularly prolific and his operative and stylistic mode is being delineated.

The point of departure is pop art: the first two major series of works for which Tadini conceives a pop language are Life of Voltaire, from 1967, and Man of Organization, from the following year. They are followed, in order, by Color & Co. (1969), Closed Circuit (1970), Journey to Italy (1971), Malevič’s Landscape and Archaeology (1972). Alongside the paintings, the exhibition presents a selection of drawings and graphic works testifying to the fact that Tadini has always placed canvas and paper, painting and drawing side by side in his “stories in images.”

The ultimate goal of the Emilio Tadini 1967-1972 exhibition project is to bring “back to light” the graphic and pictorial work of the Milanese master in order to reconstruct the figure of a total artist (painter, draughtsman, intellectual, writer and poet) who was cultured and profound, also in the light of his special relationship with Giorgio Marconi, gallery owner, collector and, above all, Tadini’s friend.

“The meeting with Marconi was important, he gave me great confidence to be able to do this work as a painter professionally,” Tadini himself recounted in 1994. “And immediately after that, working, the first big series comes out, which is the ’Life of Voltaire,’ where you see the influence of Metaphysics, you lighten the pictorial matter, I use clear monochrome backgrounds, and the history of my painting begins a little bit. At this point there is now this as a professional activity, so much so that I suspend literary work: I take notes, for me, as if I want to authorize before myself a choice.”

The exhibition opens March 27 through June 28 from mateday through Saturday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. For all information you can call +39 02 29 419 232, send an email to info@fondazionemarconi.org or visit the Marconi Foundation website by clicking here.

Pictured: Emilio Tadini, Viaggio in Italia (1971; acrylic on canvas, 200x300 cm; Private Collection)

Marconi Foundation opens its doors to its third exhibition dedicated to Emilio Tadini

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