Tano Santoro's Vision
The exhibit, Visioni, will be inaugurated on 26 June, featuring art by Tano Santoro, most famous for his Realism. The exhibit has been organized by ISU Bocconi Student Affairs Division and will be available through 15 September.
There will be twenty works of art and around ten sketches, a selection of the artist's vision. The large-format canvases (at least 2 meters) will be accompanied by sketches, all without titles. "They feature signals of light which deeply changed the notion of Realism, without betraying it," explains the curator of the exhibit, Elena Pontiggia.
This kind of Realism is transformed into a yearning to imprison light and beauty "which began as a boy, when I came to Milan poor and foolish. I was 15 then, and it was the '60s. I slipped in with Giuseppe Motti, Pizzinato, Zancanaro, excited. Meeting those people that summer made me want to become a painter," says Santoro.
The eldest of five children and gifted with an innate curiosity for art and color, Santoro truly came to Milan with two canvases, a portfolio of drawings and a dream: to follow the inspiration of a group of eccentric artists he had met at the Premio Capo d'Orlando.
He was part of the Borgonuovo group (Fumagalli, Tettamanti, Brizzi, Motti, Antonietta Ramponi, Scalvini, Rognoni and a few others), who gathered around the gallery of the same name, which was managed by Fumagalli. Santoro embraced the hard work needed to make engravings a painting and to make paintings a form of engraving.
The exhibit can be visited Mondays through Fridays from 9am to 12pm through 15 September 2017 at the Bocconi Sala Ristorante, Via Sarfatti 25.