Mario Tessari

Il Gazzettino di Pordenone, October 1983

The Surprises of Tessari – Il Gazzettino di Pordenone, October 1983 (translated by Leda Cempellin) “An artist cannot paint but surprises”: this is how Mario Tessari, when speaking about his solo exhibition at “Al Fogher”, introduces himself. Indeed, the work exhibited seems to confirm it. The first surprise is the complexity of his investigation of reality, which translates in a variety of painting gestures, materials, techniques. We are in front of drawings whose noble traits are made by pen, oils on canvas of various dimensions, and even an oil on board with interesting effects of transparence; but also in front of various cultural experiences, which suggest sometimes cubism, sometimes expressionism, some beautiful impressionist traits, but especially a prominent attention to a sort of surrealism. Here is, maybe, the second surprise: in discovering how many special, diverse and intagible approaches there may be to things; and yet how many still unexplored possibilities humans have to approach things in order to discover the ‘true’ identity, the one that is underneath appearances. It drives us to finally state, by entirely concentrating in this investigative amazement in a relationship of reciprocity, how false is the reality that surrounds us.

 

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