Happy birthday Antonio Massari

A drop in the ocean or, much less romantically, in the bathtub at home. Antonio Massari's "Absorbent papers" in the 1960s opened a gap in what can only superficially be defined abstractionism, a term and label that, among other things, the Salento artist, a life in Milan since 1970 and for some years back in his Lecce, he categorically refuses. Massari turns 90 years of life and over 60 years of artistic research celebrated in the spaces of the Sigismondo Castromediano Museum with an evening full of friends, readings, projections of images and videos.

His family, his life and his generation are in close contact with the Salento culture. Son of Michele Massari and brother of Annamaria, of whom the museum's picture gallery houses some works, he shared his youth in Lecce with his friends Tonino Caputo, Ugo Tapparini and Edoardo De Candia. To the latter, in 1998, he dedicated "Edoardo", a true narrative of an existence, mixed with anecdotes, visions, perspectives of his childhood friend. Defined by Restany the "mechanic of water" for having folded and declined the absorbing effect in a whirlwind of alien, electric, psychedelic colors, Massari also celebrated the casual component, the one necessary for the "gestation of the work". From "Pulsar" to "Newton's Cards", passing through "Mozart's Cards" and "Aloysia Carmela's Cards" and up to "Hourglass Waves", ink drops float on water and acquire a vital dimension and strongly expressive.

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