(Adnkronos) – Back online in a renewed version www.aldonatili.com, the website dedicated to the Roman painter Aldo Natili (1913-1975), active in the capital from the end of the 1930s until the mid-1970s. Dedicated to Natili’s intense and prolific pictorial production, the site returns online enriched with images of unpublished works belonging to the Collection of the artist’s heirs and the Aldo Natili Archive, owned by the family.
Natili’s work, as underlined by Luca Quattrocchi, full professor of History of Contemporary Art at the University of Siena, in the critical-biographical note published on the site, is “in many ways emblematic of the positions, evolutions, and also of the contradictions of Italian painting between the 1930s and 1970s, in particular with regard to the Roman situation”. “A complex and diversified work, that of Natili”, specifies Quattrocchi, “which in his forty years of activity sees him move, according to an internal coherence, from the intimacy of the 1930s to the realist commitment of the post-war period, up to the dramatic informal canvases of the last decade”.
Aldo Natili exhibited his works in several editions of the Rome Quadrennial and took part in the historic collective against Nazi-fascism ‘Art against barbarity’ in ’44 and in the subsequent edition of ’51. In ’46 Natili, with Guttuso, Afro, Melli, C. Levi, Vespignani and others, inspired by Zavattini, created one of the works of the precious ‘Rome Collection’ now owned by the Bnl and permanently exhibited in the renewed layout of the rooms of the ‘Museo della Scuola Romana’ of Villa Torlonia. The relaunch of the website www.aldonatili.com anticipates, in the intentions of the Heirs, a retrospective dedicated to the painter on the 50th anniversary of his death.
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