SANDRO CHERCHI 1969


In all the artists I knew, and they are quite a number, since when as a boy I completely devoted myself to art, I always noticed and greatly considered, a delicate modesty, just similar to an apology for the work done, almost like a hidden hope of doing better tomorrow to keep an unfulfilled promise.In all the artists I knew, and they are quite a number, since when as a boy I completely devoted myself to art, I always noticed and greatly considered, a delicate modesty, just similar to an apology for the work done, almost like a hidden hope of doing better tomorrow to keep an unfulfilled promise.

CORRADO CAGLI 1949

"Who followed the work and the activity of the painters in La Spezia during the last year cannot avoid understanding the meaning of "THE SEVEN" and the function the elements of such a group are having in their town. Actually, these seven characters, unlike and even antithetical, share a common impulse and consider painting a collective work: that is to say a way of painting that places the mother cause of an ever evolving painting language before the single painter's hedonistic and self-centred reasons. First such an impulse suggests a higher ethical level to the painters who understand it and then it gives greater power to the idea these painters mean to follow. Under a critical pont of view, the point linking "The Seven" of the group of La Spezia is being inspired (to sound the very beginning) by the inner sight rather than by the visible images nature inspires us with "outside". In other words that means "The Seven" are working on a way of painting that may convey ideas, therefore moved by such moral impulses so often confused by the official critic with aesthetic impulses. In a second time the diversity of their individual vocations takes each of them to share different areas of the contemporary culture: Giovannoni, so much better and entirely renewed in a year's time, is by now following the metaphysical tradition. In such a way "The Seven" do not simply offer the town of La Spezia two or three canvases, more or less well painted, according to the dictates of an academy, but a creative movement that will ever more determine a complex cultural element, able to give its remarkable contribution to new Italian painting in the years to come."