Martin Disler, VORTICI DI CONOSCENZA

Room 7

“The relationship that Disler establishes with the visitor is a call and, at the same time, a struggle; an embrace and, at the same time, a torture. This is so true when we try to turn our eyes away to defend ourselves from such a fascinating spiral: in that it calls us and drags us into the suction. Then, slowly, seduced by a pictorial beauty that has few equals today, we begin to understand that, at the bottom of that delirium and that struggle, Disler is also tracing for us the terms of an arcane and mysterious order; that order that survives shattering and chaos; that order that, precisely through signs and colours, performs on itself the extreme and sacrificial proof of its inevitability”.
It was 1987 and Giovanni Testori, reviewing in Corriere della Sera the solo exhibition of the Swiss artist (1949-1996) at the Studio d’Arte Cannaviello in Milan, recognised him as one of the most significant voices of European painting in the 1980s.

Martin Disler (1949-1996).