Ernesto Treccani: A Life Between Art and Anti-Fascism

Ernesto Treccani passed away at the age of 89 on November 27, 2009. In remembrance of this date, Cineteca del Veneto has made available a digitized interview from 1986 on Teca TV, sourced from their archives. Treccani was not only a painter but also a partisan and the founder of the Corrente movement, which stood against fascism. He transformed the newspaper Vita giovanile, inherited from his father Giovanni Treccani, into a platform for anti-fascist art and ideas. The Corrente movement featured notable artists, including Renato Birolli, Bruno Cassinari, and Renato Guttuso. Treccani’s artwork, like Strage di Melissa, reflected his personal experiences of suffering, emphasizing that true beauty can only be conveyed by those attuned to the world's pain. The digitized interview, produced with RunningTV from U-matic tape, showcases his free-thinking nature and his strong antifascist stance, along with his criticism of postwar Togliattismo.