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Il lato umano

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Text published in the catalogue of the exhibition "Giardini squisiti" with Massimo Kaufmann.
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“I remember that a few years ago a gallery owner who knew him very well cited Giovanni Testori’s prodigious speed as the clearest proof of his critical talent. I have never forgotten it. He said that Testori was so fast that he could write a beautiful text or an impeccable article about an artist he admired at the time – Rainer Fetting, Martin Disler, Helmut Middendorf, and above all Karl Horst Hoedicke – in a matter of hours. I mean to say: in Milan in the

1980s there was a great writer who was passionate about German Neo-expressionism, the New Savages; a man who greatly preferred the Mitteleuropa variant of new painting to the Italian Transavantgarde…”

 

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Year
2014
Author
Ferri Davide
Place
Casa Testori
City
Novate Milanese (Milano)
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Theoretical / Critical Text
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"Giardini squisiti", 2014, Cover