Enzo Frateili and Painting

Abstract

A brief but intense pictorial activity emerges in Enzo Frateili’s early childhood and youth experience. Frateili’s paintings offer a reinterpretation of the well-known architect and scholar, who never let go into the academic sphere his direct involvement with artistic practice. This rereading allows grasping the complexity of his thinking, always grateful to the implications of the figurative culture in the context of architectural design. His pictorial experience, interpreted as contemplation and study of reality, is prefigured as the training phase that presides over the performance of architectural design, in terms of active intervention on reality. This contributes to confirming the idea of a multifaceted mind, in line with the osmosis climate between the disciplines that characterize some figures of Italian culture of the twentieth century.