Carlo Mattioli. Works 70's and 90's

Carlo Mattioli (Modena, May 8, 1911 - Parma, July 12, 1994), in 1925 he moved with his family from Modena to Parma. He trained at the Art Institute and began his artistic career, with ways that remade the experience of Giorgio Morandi. The first major public appearance took place in 1940 at the Venice Biennale, held in Florence in 1943, due to the interest of Ottone Rosai, his first solo exhibition.

The forties and fifties are characterized by a production that connotò for a fascinating tonalism figurative. These were the years of his cultural maturation, attentive not only to the most various pictorial experiences past and present, but also full of interest for literature, especially poetry.

The sixties were those of his full statement to the general public. these years, the series of nudes, the Nature Morte and, in particular, the studies on the basket Caravaggio. During the seventies continued and renewed the search for a poetry that expresses the sudden emergence into consciousness, as in an instant enlightenment, of emotions that emanate from the observation of a nature infinitely changing, whether represented by the beaches of Versilia (1970 -74), the Poppy Fields (1974), by Lavande (since 1978), the Broom (1979). Among the many awards during this period are at least remember a major retrospective curated by Pier Carlo Santini which was set up in the Palazzo Reale in Milan (1985).

In 1986, for his seventy-five, was built in Ferrara a retrospective exhibition of landscapes; the Emilia-Romagna published a book on his work. The international reputation of Mattioli is well-established (as evidenced by the long list of solo exhibitions realized abroad). In 1993 Mattioli made his latest series of works, landscapes being white of the Apuan Alps. After the death of the painter in 1994, his work continues to be present in retrospective exhibitions in Italy and abroad.

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