TORINO ANNI ’50 LA GRANDE STAGIONE DELL’INFORMALE

The exhibition curated by Francesco Poli focuses on a fundamental phase in the artistic renewal of the 1940s/50s art scene: the great season of Informal Art. On display are more than seventy works by fifty Italian and foreign artists.

Among the painters and sculptors active in the Torino situation are the abstractionists of MAC (including Albino Galvano, Filippo Scroppo, Carol Rama, Paola Levi Montalcini) and the protagonists of Informal art such as Luigi Spazzapan, Umberto Mastroianni, Mattia Moreni, Piero Ruggeri, Sergio Saroni, Giacomo Soffiantino, Mario Merz, Pinot Gallizio and Piero Simondo.

The wide selection of international artists exhibiting in Torino in those years includes great artists such as Lucio Fontana, Afro, Giuseppe Capogrossi, Alberto Burri, Emilio Vedova, Jean Fautrier, Pierre Soulages, Georges Mathieu, Hans Hartung, Antoni Tapiés, Jean-Paul Riopelle, Asger Jorn, Pierre Alechinsky, Karel Appel, Imaï and Onishi. Translated with DeepL.com (free version)