The Italian Cultural Institute and the Italian Consulate in Edinburgh present an exhibition of paintings and engravings by Enzo Migneco. The artist, aka “Togo”, lives and works in Milan, where he was born, and in his works pays a tribue of love to his birthplace, capturing its essence and transforming into colour the emotions he experienced first as a man and then as an artist.
The art critic Massimiliano Reggiani, speaking of the exhibition, says: “Togo’s works on paper reveal the artist’s skilful use of colourful oil pastels, his mastery of outline in his engravings and his intelligent use of nuances in his lithographic works. The colours he uses in his landscapes narrate the substances they’re made of: the sun appears as a bright centre of light, the rocks are transformed into backlit shadow, the sky a game of transparencies, the water a fluid contour that veils and conceals, the flora is verticality, the human world is a geometry of dazzling walls, doors and windows built to provide shelter and lead to silence. The modelled wood of the boats on the beach, the gnarled contours of the wind-dried leaves: everything becomes memory, tactile experience, a walk, a dive, crossing the Straits, a fishing expedition, a siesta on a hot day”. The exhibition, hosted by the Italian Cultural Institute at 82 Nicolson Street, opens on 20 September until 20 October.
