White and black marks

Also Marco Tirelli belongs to the so-called New Roman School. His artistic research moves towards a continuous rarefaction of the work as such, following geometric games of false perspectives in space and preferring colors of elusive visual impact. But at the beginning of this adventure the artist, still in his twenties, was exhibited at the 1982 Venice Biennale with three paintings, one of which is the one shown here. It is a universe of signs that impact on matter, demonstrating evident influences by, for example, Antoni Tàpies. Here, however, the large dimensions of the work allow us to visualize a nascent conflict of figures in the larval state. Almost graffiti of an archaic civilization, yet exposed to the precariousness of the contemporary, the shapes suspended above a desert or on a cliff strike us with their evident effectiveness of symbols whose profound significance has been lost.