Fausta Squatriti's Surrealist Pop Paintings at Galleria Bianconi

Galleria Bianconi in Milan presents a small but precious exhibition of works by Milanese artist Fausta Squatriti (b. 1941). The painter, sculptor, writer, poet, art critic, publisher, and teacher at various academies including Brera, drew inspiration from a 1928 theatrical text by Federico García Lorca, published after his encounter with Salvador Dalí. Squatriti's new paintings blend Rococo lightness reminiscent of Tiepolo's aerial visions with amoeboid forms, oscillating between abstraction and figuration. Her palette features pastel, enameled, and festive tones with a Pop sensibility. This contrasts with the heavy, embalmed quality of old frames applied to the canvases as found objects, creating a kitsch game that winks at her Surrealist friends. The exhibition showcases Squatriti's 360-degree creativity, rooted in Milan's post-war art scene influenced by Surrealism, Dadaism, Geometric Abstraction, and Pop Art, with figures like Lucio Fontana, Enrico Baj, Arturo Schwarz, and Gillo Dorfles.