Gillo Dorfles as Artist: Exhibition in Rome

An exhibition at Galleria Aleandri in Rome highlights Gillo Dorfles as an artist, a lesser-known facet of his multifaceted career. Dorfles (Trieste, 1910 – Milan, 2018) is primarily remembered as an art critic, aesthetics professor, and philosopher. He also trained as a psychiatrist and was influenced by the Central European culture of his native Trieste, as well as psychoanalysis and Steiner's anthroposophy. In the 1930s, he associated with abstract artists like Terragni, Belli, Melotti, and Fontana. After World War II, he co-founded the Movimento Arte Concreta, advocating for an interactive synthesis of the arts and formal research that eschewed realism to give concrete form to enigmatic mental objects, evoking archetypal intuitions and Freudian unconscious echoes reminiscent of Miró and Arp. The exhibition presents his artistic output from these periods.