The Ancient Romanesque Church of San Rocco in Condove is hosting the exhibition *Il gioco della pittura* (The Game of Painting), a historical and critical exploration of the parallel and complementary trajectories of two masters of the late 20th-century Italian art scene. The exhibition begins in the late 1940s, when Francesco Casorati (1934–2013) and Francesco Tabusso (1930–2012) began their creative partnership. Rooted in the same artistic tradition and closely linked to the teachings of Felice Casorati – Francesco’s father and Tabusso’s mentor – the two artists chose not to passively submit to the sharp polarisation of the time (the debate between abstraction and figuration), focusing instead, with absolute rigour, on the autonomy of the pictorial language, its structure and its intrinsic beauty. As revealed by archival research, their youth was marked by a distinct interdisciplinary approach, evidenced by their editorial contributions to the avant-garde magazines "Noi Giovani" and "Orsa Minore". In these forums, constant interaction with poetry, music and, above all, theatre (from stage design to the rhythm of the narrative) laid the foundations for a conception of painting understood not as a mere aesthetic exercise, but as a serious, intellectual and constructive ‘game’. From the very outset, drawing established itself for both of them as a structural foundation and the primary means of resisting the allure of the Informel movement and of shaping, respectively, memory and the imagination.
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