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Carlo Borella La poetica emotiva del paesaggio lombardo
Carlo Borella celebrated his one-hundredth birthday—on April 22, 2000—with a solo show entitled La poetica emotiva del paesaggio lombardo (The Emotive Poetic of the Lombard Landscape) held at the Galleria Lazzaro by Corsi from September 13 through October 1, 2000.
Borella began painting at thirteen, studying under Alfonso Muzzi, who himself had been a pupil of Michetti.
His scenes of Lombardy, the churches of Milan, and the dwellings of Valmalenco, are now nothing more than “historic memories”: new housing requirements have partially changed or entirely eradicated these characteristic corners of Lombardy.
With his skilled technique and intelligent use of color, Borella has—as noted critics such as Portalupi, Villani, and Del Bono have agreed—immortalized the Lombard plane with its trees in an infinite variety of green, the houses of Valmalenco in the broadest spectrum of grays, and the basilicas of Milan with his expert touches of orange and yellow.
Since 1982 he has been present in the Comanducci.
Borella has great plans for the future, which include organizing further exhibitions of his work and creating of a foundation where his paintings can be housed.
Carlo Borella and the Emotive Poetic of the Lombard Landscape
The vision of Milanese painter Carlo Borella is distinctive: the pure light of the Lombard countryside, the characteristic green-gray stones of the alpine Valmalenco region, and his “specialty” still life works.
On April 22, 2000, Borella celebrated a century of healthy life.
This exhibition of his work was not only a personal celebration. It also provided the opportunity to revisit a number of important examples from the artist’s extensive body of paintings, which has never played to the art market.
Passionate about his work, and highly protective of it, Borella has never wanted to be parted from his canvases.
At the age of thirteen, Borella, a native of Baveno, executed a magnificent landscape, still in his possession, that won him some early lessons from the painter Alfonso Muzzi. After a difficult start to his career, in which war duties and personal commitments prevailed, in the ’60s he began to show again and gained praise from critics such as Mario Portalupi, Dino Villani, and, from 1982, was cited in the highly respected Comanducci dictionary. Borella’s favored medium is oil on canvas and he devotes his time to serene, realistic depictions of Lombardy and of still life tableaux. In his works, the countryside of Lombardy acquires soft green and yellow hues, while his views of Milan’s churches and canals adopt luminous pastel tones. The results are vibrant, intense, and effectively poignant images viewed in a highly personal way that is spontaneous, communicative.
This exhibition was a rare opportunity to discover the attraction of this little-shown artistic patrimony. It testified to Borella’s great talent and to his exceptional “centenary,” and brought to life once again the history of the places depicted, in such works as his miniatures of the villages around lake Verbano from the ’30s.
Then, in the’50s, Borella celebrates the countryside of the Valmalenco in around one hundred works.
The views that he portrays have long-since changed, revolutionized by modernism. An authentic historical record, they testify to a past era that even the residents of the Valmalenco themselves have forgotten and blocked out. Art has no borders, however, and Borella’s paintings contribute greatly to our understanding of the Val Malenco. This valley’s most authentic painted images are in his hand, portrayed on canvas using not only his eyes, but his heart. A generous talent indeed.
The artist’s great dream is to one day see his works cared for in a permanent foundation that celebrates the achievements of his long career.
In contrast to the art of today, Borella’s “century old” work creates a dialogue with traditional values, shuns instant gratification and shallow, facile aestheticism. A lesson we can all learn something from.
Ermanno Sagliani
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