Colpo di vento, 1953

Moreni began his career as an artist in Turin and was, prior to the CRT acquisitions, represented in the GAM collection by a large painting from his early Post-Cubist period, Il porto di Antibes, Antibes (Port of Antibes,Antibes), 1951, and by a later canvas from his Informel period, Sterpaglia sulle rocce (Brushwood on the Rocks), 1956. The latter work, vertical in orientation and yet dramatically focused on the ground, creates a contrast of visual tensions that conveys an often furious outburst, which the artist is able to impart in the work’s dynamism and in the pictorial material, applied with relentless gesturalism. [...]