Gianni Dova was first an exponent of the Spatialist Movement (to which other big names such as Roberto Crippa, Lucio Fontana, Milena Milani and Giorgio Kaisserlian would also adhere) and then of the Nuclear Painting Movement, that of Enrico Baj and Sergio Dangelo. As he himself stated, for Dova painting was the means to understand reality, starting from an abstraction to understand the real. He began his artistic career by following in Picasso’s Cubist footsteps, establishing himself as one of the main exponents of the Neo-Cubist movement and among the first emerging artists after World War II.
After a period of approchement with the Surrealist current, Dova began to follow Lucio Fontana’s Spatialist Movement and joined the Concrete Art Movement of Dorfles and Ballocco, a period in which the first liquid and amoeboic forms with an informal imprint appeared. His modus operandi was eclectic and aimed at a fantastic art with expressive freedom and eccentricity, characterised by pigments that created a figurative composition, although they seemed to have been thrown onto the canvas at random and without reasoning.

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