Ennio Finzi

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Finzi Ennio
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Biography   

Ennio Finzi was born in 1931. He took an interest in painting and music at a very tender age. After 1950 he joined avant-garde art movements in Venice, starting up a cycle of works on the theme of chromatic scales and on the principle of structured spatial relations.
In 1954 he was invited to take part in group exhibitions also at international level. He made his first cycle of “rhythm-vibration” paintings in which he made an in-depth study of the values of light and chromatic rhythms. Later on, after some experience with “rhythm-sign” functions, he returned to his studies of visual relations and made a cycle of works on “vibration-light” motifs. Here, visual perception marks out formal ideas of extreme simplicity and absoluteness which, towards the end of the Sixties, were brought in to question precisely because of that dialectic game which Finzi never repudiated but, on the contrary, obstinately encouraged.

In the Eighties his investigations made use of new expressive tensions, in which colour once again acquired highly denotative traits, only to be negated once again in favour of a study of absolute black – in other words of absence and emptiness. In the early Nineties, his colour once again acquired pregnancy, emerging with renewed vigour initially in a study of the simultaneousness of contrasts, and then in one that revealed its innermost resonance.

His works have been shown at the Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa in Venice, and since 1952 he has taken part in several national and international events including those at the:
Galleria Schneider, Rome 1957;
Premio San Fedele, Milan; Galleria Numero, Florence;
Galleria Apollinaire, Milan 1958, introduced by Giuseppe Marchiori;
Quadriennale in Rome, 1959;
Otto Pittori Veneziani at the Prado, Madrid and, later, in Seville, Cologne, Berlin, and Dortmund, 1960; Premio Michetti, Francavilla al Mare, 1960;
Galleria Il Traghetto, Venice; Artisti Italiani in Tunis, 1962;
Galleria Il Traghetto, Venice, published a monograph with introduction by Umbro Apollonio and Toni Toniato 1969;
Galerie 58 Rapperswill, text by C. Belloli, 1973;
Galleria Method, Bergamo, 1976;
Anthological exhibition at Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice 1980;
Participation in the 42nd Biennale in Venice, 1986;
Seminar held by Professor G. Mazzariol at the Department of Art History and Criticism, University of Venice; Galleria d’Arte Moderna Palazzo Forti, Verona, with essays by Giorgio Cortenova and Toni Toniato, 1987;
Galleria d’Arte Moderna Palazzo dei Diamanti, Ferrara 1988;
Galleria Civica Palazzo Todeschini, Desenzano del Garda 1990;
Galleria Il Cavallino, Venice 1991;
Studio d’Arte L’Argentario, Trento 1992; Fondazione G. Mazzariol Querini Stampalia, Venice 1992;
Galleria Spriano, Omegna 1995;
Palazzetto dell’Arte Città di Foggia, 1996;
Galleria Sagittaria Pordenone “Opere 1951-58” catalogue texts by L. Caramel and D. Marangon; invited to the “Spazialismo Arte Astratta 1950-1960” exhibition, Basilica Palladiana, Vicenza; S. Gregorio Art Gallery, Venice, Los Angeles, introduction by L. Barbero; Galleria Morone “Gli anni 50”, Milan 1997;
Participation in “L’Arte del XX secolo delle collezioni private”, Vicenza 1998;
“Emblemi d’Arte, cent’anni della Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa 1899-1999”, Venice;
“Proiezioni 2000” Quadriennale di Roma, 1999;
“Venezia 1950-59, il Rinnovamento della Pittura in Italia”, Palazzo dei Diamanti di Ferrara, 1999.