Ernesto Treccani

Ernesto Treccani (Milano 1920 – 2009) is the son of the senator Giovanni Treccani degli Alfieri who is also the founder of Istituto Treccani. Thanks to his father, when he was 18 he was the director of the magazine "Corrente". Around the magazine there was a group of anti-fascism artists and authors (Guttuso, Birolli, Migneco, Sassu), in contrast with the movement Novecento.

Treccani paints about many themes during the years: in '50s the protagonists of his works are peasents from Calabria that he knows very well when he goes to Melissa and the urban and industrial landscape of Milan and Paris. He starts from reality but he depicts it with fantastic athmospheres between truth and fairytales. His art becomes politically and socially active in 1956, the year of the Russian occupation of Hungary. 

The main themes of his career are recovered and reviewed between '70s and '80s and they are characterized by visionary atmospheres. He tries the acrylic to put on canvas overlappings of colours and rapid touches. The shapes he represents are overall faces and they tend to informal. He travelled all life long exhibiting his works borh in Italy and all over the world (Paris, London, MOscow, New York...).