MAQ Magazine n. 10 / February 2019
Alessandro Testa,
neo-Pythagorean painter
by Salvatore Paolo Garufi Tanteri
The painting by Alessandro Testa, at least in the art, reproposes the "dripping" of Jackson Pollock. There is, however, him a substantial "tonal" concept in constructing the image, which makes it different from the American artist.
I'll explain.
The artistic progress of Pollock goes for transparencies and relies on analogue echoes. The colors are pure, with wide and apparently irregular spots, but then they are imprisoned inside the "barbed wire" of the figurative tangles of the surface. Thus, they become extraordinary "evasions of light". His intuition, therefore, is to think of a life that lies deep, beyond the visible phenomena (that is, in the noumenal of Immanuel Kant), in the unknowable but only intuitable.