Artwork ‘Untitled’ of 1964 ink, oil and grease pencil on canvas by Maestro Emilio Scanavino authenticated and archived.
In Emilio Scanavino‘s work, the most recognizable, recurring motif is the knot as a visual tangle, a collectionof matter, and a condensation of tensions. It serves as an effective metaphor for the human existential
condition.
Emilio Scanavino is one of the leading artists of European informal painting.
Emilio Scanavino, Italian Painter and Ceramist (Genoa 1922-Milan 1986).
He started out in figurative expressionism (1945-1950).
After the war, in 1947, he saw and studied Picasso’s works in Paris and witnessed the rise of Art Informel.
In 1951 he met Bacon, Sutherland, Eduardo Paolozzi, and Matta in London and it was an extremely formative experience.
In the 1950s, Emilio Scanavino joined the group “I sette del Numero” of Galleria Numero in Florence, along with fellow famous painter Rocco Borella.
In 1951 and 1952 Scanavino got interested in ceramics.
Influenced by his father’s theosophical experiences, he developed his exploration of marks and every line takes on symbolic, metaphysical meaning and the images become ritualistic, almost medium-like in their connotations.
“I construct with marks but it’s not automatic. Informal art tends to be random, but my art doesn’t rely on chance.” Emilio Scanavino
Emilio Scanavino said his tangles were a means to escape the advancing darkness, anchor points to help us not leave everything behind.
The many critics who have written about the artist have used his ubiquitous iconographic marks to decipher his work.
While his tangles of lines have placed him among mark-making Informal artists, contemporary critics argue that Scanavino’s work is about more than that.
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