{"id":110200,"date":"2022-07-27T11:15:09","date_gmt":"2022-07-27T10:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/egidimadeinitaly.com\/ecomsite\/?post_type=product&p=110200"},"modified":"2025-10-09T14:05:46","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T13:05:46","slug":"emilio-scanavino-painting","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/egidimadeinitaly.com\/en\/negozio\/modern-art\/modern-paintings\/emilio-scanavino-painting\/","title":{"rendered":"Emilio Scanavino Painting"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Emilio Scanavino<\/strong>‘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
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\nEmilio Scanavino is one of the leading artists of European informal painting.<\/p>\n

Emilio Scanavino, Italian<\/b> Painter and Ceramist<\/b> (Genoa 1922-Milan 1986).<\/span><\/p>\n

He started out in figurative expressionism (1945-1950).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

After the war, in 1947, he saw and studied Picasso’s works in Paris and witnessed the rise of Art Informe<\/a>l.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In 1951 he met Bacon, Sutherland, Eduardo Paolozzi, and Matta in London and it was an extremely formative experience.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In the 1950s, Emilio Scanavino joined the group “<\/span>I sette del Numero<\/b>” of <\/span>Galleria Numero<\/b> in Florence, along with fellow famous painter Rocco Borella.<\/span><\/p>\n

Emilio Scanavino and Ceramics\u00a0<\/b><\/h2>\n

\u00a0In 1951 and 1952 Scanavino got interested in ceramics.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0The Tangle\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n

Influenced by his father\u2019s 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.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI construct with marks but it’s not automatic. Informal art tends to be random, but my art doesn’t rely on chance.\u201d <\/span><\/i>Emilio Scanavino<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Style of Emilio Scanavino’s Works\u00a0<\/b><\/h2>\n

Emilio Scanavino said his tangles were a means to escape the advancing darkness, anchor points to help us not leave everything behind.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The many critics who have written about the artist have used his ubiquitous iconographic marks to decipher his work.<\/span><\/p>\n

While his tangles of lines have placed him among <\/span>mark-making Informal artists<\/b>, contemporary critics argue that Scanavino’s work is about more than that.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Exhibitions and Awards\u00a0<\/b><\/h2>\n