THE ARCHITECT LUIGI MORETTI. FROM RATIONALISM TO INFORMALISM

ANNALISA VIATI NAVONE

The work of the eminent Italian modernist architect Luigi Moretti (1907-1973) reflects his wide interests. He was especially interested in the new art form, which was called Informal Art or Art Autre (Other Art), by the French art critic Michel Tapiè at the end of the forties. Informal Art was created by many young artists such as Alberto Burri, Lucio Fontana, the Jackson Pollock and Georges Mathieu. One of the important issues arround which Moretti’s creative interests the history, especially the great works of Michelangelo. The others being his attention to the inner space, resulting in the new way to consider it and to describe its qualities as nobody in Italy had before, and his curiosity for science, which led him to explore its possible connection with architecture and art. Moretti was also interested in the conditions of vision, in how the observer perceives a work of art in its general form and in details; therefore, he looked for the correct angles giving a global and a particular vision of a work of architecture.