Enrico Della Torre | Canvases, works on paper, etchings | Galerie Dittmar | 30.11.2024-18.01.2025

“Della Torre never offers a ‘pictorial solution’, but the analysis of the pictorial enigma, the hermetic testimony of a confrontation with the object which, retrospectively, turns it into a mystery… Yet in these pictures the element of disturbance does not appear as a conscious movement, it is not the message, but the medium as manifesto, whose pathos is genuine and incontestable.” – Wolfgang Hildesheimer, 1979

1931 Pizzighettone (Cremona) – 2022 Milan. 1951-1955 Attended the Accademia di Brera, Milan. 1960 1st prize for painting San Fedele in Milan. Since 1961 studio and apartment in Milan. Since 1963 friendship with Lamberto Vitali, who had also discovered Giorgio Morandi. Numerous awards and solo and group exhibitions in national and international museums.

   Gradini, 1991, Radierung und Aquatinta, 17,4 x 23,4 auf 38 x 56 cm, E.A.

Works in the Galleria d’Arte Moderna Bologna, the Herzog-Anton-Ulrich-Museum Braunschweig, the Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe of the Uffizi Gallery Florence, the Pinakothek der Moderne Munich, the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung Munich, the Museum of Modern Art New York, the Bibliothèque Nationale Paris and the Graphische Sammlung Albertina Vienna, among others.

For Della Torre, the primacy of form applies in the confrontation with reality and in constant reconnection to it. The diverse and surprising correspondences refer to the concrete, the organic and the inanimate, to zoomorphic beings, vegetation and landscape formations. The reference to nature lacks any superficial definition of content, despite some deliberately placed titles. Everything remains in limbo and is supported by a well thought-out, but never coldly calculating pictorial organization, which has an interweaving character and something symbolic, while at the same time avoiding anything moody or atmospheric. Etching is on an equal footing with the other techniques, virtuously exploiting the possibilities that are only available to it within this artistic process.