The Giuliani Foundation for Contemporary Art dedicates an intense solo exhibition to Giulio Turcato, curated by Martina Caruso and Adrienne Drake, which captures the visionary strength and tireless inventiveness of one of the boldest protagonists of the post-war period.

The exhibition opens on Saturday, October 11, 2025, with an extraordinary opening from 10:00 to 18:00, and will be open until Saturday, January 31, 2026. The Turcato exhibition brings together almost thirty years of the artist's research, focusing on the theme of monochrome, interpreted not as a subtraction exercise, but as a generative space: a fertile ground where color and material become tools of knowledge and discovery. Starting from the early sixties, Giulio Turcato's monochromes are conceived as places of transformation, where painting and texture push the boundaries of artistic practice beyond traditional limits.

For Turcato, the monochrome is never a definitive endpoint, but rather an origin and opening. Where other artists have sought spiritual purity or conceptual suspension, he transforms it into a pulsating field of possibilities. The canvas ceases to be a mere support and becomes a living body with relief: carved surfaces, phosphorescent powders, pills, coins, carbon paper. Everyday materials collected from the world become a sensitive alphabet to decipher nature. From vegetables to minerals, from ruins to bacteria, his work filters life itself through the lens of artistic invention. For Turcato, art is knowledge: a system capable of revealing, through color and form, the deep structures of reality.

The artist's trajectory intertwines radical political commitment and incessant formal experimentation. In 1947, with Carla Accardi, Ugo Attardi, Pietro Consagra, Piero Dorazio, Mino Guerrini, Achille Perilli, and Antonio Sanfilippo, he founded FORMA 1: a movement that rejects the rigid figurative orthodoxy of communism and claims the autonomy of abstraction. The works of the post-war period thus reflect a restless tension between abstraction and realism, a reflection of the search for a personal visual lexicon in a time of profound cultural transformation.