Ca' Pesaro continues its activity of valorising the authors present in the civic collections with a tribute to Ennio Finzi. Counted among the Masters of the great pictorial season of abstract art, Ennio Finzi, born in Venice in 1931, is the protagonist of a room in the permanent collection of the International Gallery of Modern Art, from 17 May to 6 October 2024. One of the most radical artists of the Italian twentieth century, Ennio Finzi was able to subvert the informal language of the post-war period by pursuing an unusual research based on the atonal and timbral values of color, thus representing a model of painting that Luciano Caramel defined as "irritual".

Conversely, he was also able to trace a path that was less frenetic and more subtended by perceptive reflection, conducting an in-depth investigation into the intrinsic structures of the form, perhaps in an attempt to tame and "bend" his own ungovernable contradictions. From this synthetic general framework we chose to represent the Venetian artist with some of his most emblematic works of the 1950s, such as the "geometric" Chromatic Scales, where the intermittent appearance of color unfolds in clear scores of vertical bands; Vibrating rhythms, where the yellow flows thin and thread-like in rapid and changing temporal progressivity; or like White on white and Gray on gray where light reveals itself as a spiritual emitter of a sparse matter, with labile and indistinctly suspended boundaries.