Ennio Tamburi
Ennio Tamburi (Jesi, 1936 - Rome, 2018) lived and worked in Rome and Zurich and was one of the main exponents of pictorial abstraction from the eighties onwards. After a long and successful season of experimentation with different techniques (graphics, sculpture, assembly) used in a political-existentialist key, the artist came to a work focused on the use of fine oriental papers on
which the repetition of minimal signs and variable geometric elements, frequently rendered with watercolor painting, defines compositions characterized by a clear visual continuity: here the artist's choice to recall the idea so frequently in the titles of his exhibitions “Continuo". After exhibiting in Italy and abroad in important public and private galleries since the early 1960s, in 2012 the National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome dedicated a major retrospective to the artist. In his most recent works Tamburi achieves unprecedented results of compositional balance. The forms of abstract painting, in fact, become the definitive through a deep and touching meditation on fundamental themes: nature, time, existence. "My direction is towards unfinished, fluid geometric shapes,
with the liquid matter of colors left free to run: I create
the embankments on the paper, but I also like the shapes to pass
however, flaking. There is in this, I believe, a new sense
dramatic that entered my life: in fact, water is
even something that escapes.
