Morago

Towards the beginning of the 1980s, his training in advertising graphics re-emerged, and the artist proceeded towards a new, increasingly radical dimension of painting for painting, of an art that focuses on the chromatic expression of the surrounding reality. Color became the main element, the primordial force, in a continuous suppression of the superfluous, understood as decorative: Morago discarded the descriptive aspect of things, stripping them of their appearance.

Red and black were the predominant elements during the 1980s while blue drowned in a night black was the symbol of the following decade in the artist’s poetics. His research became increasingly anti-naturalistic and radically free from any ambition of representation.

In 1994 a committee of international experts, appointed by the Council of the European Community, chose him out of 1500 painters and sculptors as the only artist to represent Italy at the new European Council Palace in Brussels. The following year the great Italian art expert Erich Steingräber recognized in Morago a master of contemporary art and took care of his monograph for the exhibition at the Palazzo dei Trecento in Treviso.

In 1998 he was a guest in Montecarlo by invitation of Prince Ranieri of Monaco and a few months later, on the occasion of the prestigious Vienna Music Festival, the Morago – VeneziaischeMalereiHeute exhibition opened, offering, at the exclusive Herbert von Karajan Centrum, a selection of the latest works created by the artist.

His international consecration allowed him an anthological exhibition, which the Municipality of Oderzo dedicated to his artistic activity.

Despite his international fame, with personals all over the world (Miami, Hong Kong, Lima, Madeira, New York, Stuttgart, Shanghai, Cologne) Morago continues to live in a very small village on the Venetian plain: San Polo di Piave.

In 2016, the Municipality of Fontanelle awarded him honorary citizenship.