A tale. Max Pellegrini and Italo Cremona
Exhibition
An exhibition focused on his later paintings, A tale. Max Pellegrini and Italo Cremona will present the last ten years of Max Pellegrini work, mostly previously undisplayed, where we can find an evolution of his poetics, towards a delicate symbolism in which he links literary citations to an elegant linear and chromatic style. His personal path, the one of an outsider enamoured with painting, is summarized in these large canvases, where we can see the different inspirations and experiences that nurtered him: psychedelia and protest, the love for history of art and the experiments of avant-garde, classical knowledge and post-modern thinking.
This method of collecting, assembling different symbolic images from different traditions and suggestions (last but not least his autobiography)leads to the comparison with another outsider from Turin, the painter Italo Cremona (1905-1979).
Three artworks, coming from the GAM collections, unveil a Piedmontese tradition, that never left its figurative vocabulary, going through the Art Nouveau style, the abstraction of Felice Casorati, the experimentations of the Gruppo dei Sei.
The big monographic catalogue, edited on the occasion of the two exhibitions, collects critical and biographical essays, and will mostly investigate the first and the last part of Max Pellegrini production.
Monday through Friday 10AM to 4PM