A three-part exhibition with viewing opportunities in New York, Saint Paul de Vence and Antwerp, “A New Visual Dialogue” will include works by Alberto Biasi, Dadamaino, Lucio Fontana, Giorgio Griffa, Pino Pinelli, Turi Simeti and Nanda Vigo. An opening reception will be held in the New York gallery on Oct. 9, from 4:30-8 p.m. and in Antwerp on Nov. 21 from 5-9 p.m., and a catalog will be available on the occasion of this exhibition with an essay by Elena Forin of Larete Art Projects.
By the mid-20th century, Italy had started both politically and culturally to recover from the horrors of World War II, and entered into a global artistic discussion. Brought together by the work and philosophy of Lucio Fontana, a transplant from Argentina, who is represented in this exhibition with his 1959 painting Concetto Spaziale, Attese, groups of young artists together developed an artistic language based upon minimalism and a desire to transform the physical presence of the work. Prominent among these were artists associated with a global movement called Zero, which will be featured in an exhibition at New York’s Solomon R. Guggenheim museum this fall, and the related Italian offshoot, Azimut.
Directly or indirectly, it is these movements that link the artists included in “A New Visual Dialogue.” Each utilized the example set by Fontana’s Spazialismo to develop their own independent interpretation of how to best pursue a simple and meaningful art through abstract forms. The physical transformation of the three-dimensional surface, through Fontana’s slashes, Dadamaino’s holes, Simeti’s ovular protrusions or the building up, in the work of Pinelli, Vigo and Biasi, or breaking down of surfaces by Griffa, does this and is the key shared element of the work of the selected seven artists, and many others working in Italy and elsewhere during this period.
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