Composizione, 1956

A nomadic spirit, capable of participating in multiple experiences while maintaining his autonomy, Giulio Turcato, after some interaction with the Corrente group, was one of the artists who came together to form the Fronte Nuovo delle Arti. A heterogeneous collective joined not by stylistic choices but above all by commitment of a moral nature, the Front emerged in 1947 in Milan and reassembled, at the initiative of the critic Giuseppe Marchiori, on the occasion of the 1948 Venice Biennale. Turcato – who for a period moved back and forth between Venice and Milan, and settled in Rome in 1943 – found opportunities for the exchange of important ideas in the group. [...]