Mario Pozzan’s production has been subject to significant, yet coherent, transformations.
The man was the centre of his research when he lived in Casalmaggiore in the 1960s: the research took the form of intensely expressive draws, portraits of unpretentious, simple men and young women, who often posed in the workshop in Via del Lino.
He first moved to Milan, where he worked for editorial illustration, and then to Cremona, where he taught Pictorial decoration for more than twenty years. He continued creating and testing without stopping, although he intentionally avoided the market chain and the exhibitions. He denounced man’s alienation in the contemporary period. His research focused on anatomic deconstruction-reconstruction of the human body, paying special attention to the torso: it was no longer intended as part of the perfect beauty, but as man’s principal life function mass. Very big paintings derived from this research, as this one in nearly Barocco style: the exhibition of an exploded anatomy is sumptuous; the centre of the subjectivity is the stomach, not the head.
The artist began to isolate the single elements (shattered agglomerated bones, organs and limbs), which will be modular and structural for the next neo-constructivist research. Here, the painting is able to come out from the picture making itself multi-material and three-dimensional.
It is Mario Pozzan’s artistic parabola, which has been framed by Andrea Visioli: he was the promoter of two important exhibitions which took place in Diotti Museum and in MuVi in Viadana in the last two years, shortly before an unexpected death caught a still very active Pozzan.
Donated by the Artist, 2018
