Enrico Della Torre Biography
Enrico Della Torre (Pizzighettone 1931-2022) After attending high school and the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan, in 1953 he created informal paintings and etchings inspired by the familiar places of the Po Valley. In 1955 he settled permanently in Milan, where he presented himself with a solo exhibition at the Galleria dell'Ariete. After a short stay in Paris, he sought a new and more structured pictorial syntax, and created, in 1958, paintings characterized by parallel horizontal lines in light tones; in 1959 he instead created paintings punctuated by black diagonals. But, especially starting from 1968, Della Torre's painting becomes the expression of a world populated by new characters, animals, visions, of an abstract lyrical-naturalistic taste. During the early Seventies he experienced a moment of great success with the public and critics, a harbinger of exhibitions in Italy and abroad, to which was added his participation in the X Quadrennial of Art in Rome. In 1983 he also began to use collage, testing himself with a technique that allowed him to experiment more directly with a further degree of abstraction of the image. In 1994 he was awarded the Triennale di Milano Prize for engraving, while in 1997 an anthological exhibition was dedicated to him at the Osvaldo Licini Study Center in Monte Vidon Corrado in the Marche. In 2000 a vast retrospective was dedicated to him in Reggio Emilia.
