Ennio Finzi - Artist Info

About Ennio Finzi

  • Biography

    Ennio Finzi was born in Venice, Italy in 1931 and as a young man became interested in painting and music. After attending courses for a brief period at the Institute of Art in Venice, he became attracted to the discovery of cubist* structural disarrangement, which allowed him to transcend the representation of given reality.

    After the 1948 Venice Biennale*, the Historic Archives of the Contemporary Arts in Venice reopened, offering Finzi the chance to dedicate himself to the study of masters of avant-garde movements in history. Meeting Atanasio Soldati, who spent a period of time in Venice, stimulated Finzi and probably influenced subsequent works characte­rised by bright chromatics and rigo­rous formal symmetry.

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