Mattia Moreni: From Expressionist Vision to Digital Premonition
Mattia Moreni was born in Pavia in 1920 and died in Brisighella in 1999, the town in Emilia-Romagna to which he had moved in 1966. Over the course of a career spanning more than five decades, he evolved from a visionary expressionism rooted in the observation of the natural and human world into a late body of work that anticipated the electronic and digital transformation of art itself. From the mid-1930s, Moreni favoured a naturalistic vision of things, figures, houses and landscapes; by the early 1940s he had also turned to portraiture. This language took shape during his studies at the Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti in Turin, where he developed introspective images marked by expressionistic intensity. His first solo exhibition, held in 1946 at Galleria La Bussola in Turin, presented paintings and drawings from this formative period. Visionary expressionism and deliberately destabilising images appeared in the guise of close-up compositions of fruit or animals. Already visibl...
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