User:Luigi Marengo

Luigi Margengo, born in Gallarate, Italy on February 3, 1928 is one of the most revered Italian painters of the 20th century.

Over the last 60 years, Marengo's paintings have been displayed throughout Italy and around the world, including at the Gran Palais Musuem in Paris, France and The Contemporary Garden, Venice, Italy. His work is included in numerous public and private collections internationally.

Marengo's Art

In his early years, Marengo was most inspired by the the natural landscapes found in and around Northern Italy.

However, he found his signature style in the early 1940's with his self-titled genre, "Instinctivism of the Sign". Best described as a unique combination of abstract and expressionist art, Marengo attempts to portray the instinctual expressions of modern man that due to the domination of technology in all our lives is inherently solitary and desolate.

Marengo attempted to explain his pictorial experience from the 1940's through the 1960's in a letter to a critic in 1972: "I felt compelled to insert in each painting, a "Sign". In this way, I intend to explain that man should plagiarize his own natural subjectivity...Going forward with such resources, the "Instinctive Sign" has evolved into geometrical shapes such as triangles, circles and squares...With this methodology, the pantomime leads to a real and objective dimension."

The Luigi Marengo Foundation was established in 2006 in order to ensure the preservation of Marengo's artistic heritage and to protect the intellectual property rights of his works.