“A New Visual Dialogue” Exhibition
De Buck Gallery
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De Buck Gallery announces an upcoming group exhibition entitled “A New Visual Dialogue,” which brings together works by pre-eminent post-war Italian artists including Alberto Biasi, Dadamaino, Lucio Fontana, Giorgio Griffa, Pino Pinelli, Turi Simeti and Nanda Vigo.
By the mid-twentieth century, Italy had started both politically and culturally to recover from the horrors of the Second World War, 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 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.
This exhibition brings together some of the most important names and trends in post-war Italian art. Many of these artists were inspired, directly or indirectly, by the global Zero movement, a vastly overlooked artistic reaction to the Second World War and previous art movements, initially founded in Germany by Heinz Macke and Otto Piene. In recent years, Zero has gained a tremendous increase in critical attention.
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Schedule
from October 09, 2014 to November 08, 2014
Opening Reception on 2014-10-09 from 16:30 to 20:00
Artist(s)
Alberto Biasi, Dadamaino, Lucio Fontana, Giorgio Griffa, Pino Pinelli, Turi Simeti, Nanda Vigo