The magazine MAQ February 2019 February 2019 | Page 164

Pollock, in short, like Lucio Fontana with his famous "cut" on the canvas, wants to "go beyond", to rediscover another boundless objective reality in the unknown of the entire universe and of our soul.

Testa, on the other hand, in some way brings the entire artistic investigation back to the Pythagorean concept of the number, understood as "pure and simple relationship". Each number is such only because it relates to the other numbers, so the substance of reality should not be sought in things, but in the relationship of things to each other.

In this sense, his figuration presents above all moods expressed with very calibrated "tonal values". At this point, it must be said that the originality of our artist lies in the dominant concept in his painting: the recovery of the sense of things.

Images above: Pollock on the left, Lucio Fontana on the right