Mario Tessari

Giuseppe Mariuz, 1984

(translated by Leda Cempellin) In the artworks by Mario Tessari artistic movements and techniques overlap and intertwine in an exploration that, without excluding anything, collects diverse fruits. Starting from the Cézanne-like interpretation of impressionism – the root for so many movements in the XX century – outcomes followed that led to symbolism, futurism, and even the American action painting (a homage paid to Pollock is evident in some of his paintings). However, a continuum can be found in the metaphysical and surrealist painting, where the dream-like and unconscious component is privileged, through images that, originated in the fantasy and escapes an immediate control. The rational schemes are often turned upside down (it is a choice, since Tessari is also quite talented in academic drawing): the images resulting are sometimes primitive, sometimes very colored, with a disarranged space. As a confirmation of that, he himself states that “the painter cannot paint but surprises”, and adds “we use art as a mirror of our soul”. In the most recent works (1984), he insists, through mixed techniques, on painting shapes vaguely stained, reworked and often monochromatic, to which he graphically superimposes his anthropomorphic perceptions: as a game, to interpret transient clouds in the sky.

 

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