Urban conflicts and the mutations that involve human life in the cities, a humiliated condition of existence, "the violence and fatigue of bodies" in the words of Piero Del Giudice, are at the center of Tino Vaglieri's artistic research, translated into an energetic and aggressive pictorial sign, distant as much from the formalisms of abstractionism as from the ideology of official realism.
Painter of Trieste origin, but who is formed in Brera next to those artists who will be his companions on the road, such as Banchieri, Guerreschi and, later Ferroni, Romagnoni and Ceretti, Vaglieri felt at the end of the fifties the influence of the Informal, but without ever losing sight of the real fact in its historical dimension and recognizing the painting a civil function.
Del Giudice, from whose collection come the works on paper by Vaglieri shown here, greatly appreciated this "political painter, but a heretic" in whom he found a consonance with the harsh words of his poetry and in 1995 promoted a major exhibition at the Permanente in Milan.
Donated by Gianfranco Fiameni e Anna Cesari, 2012
