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Item Number: 126927
Title: AGOSTINO BONALUMI : All the Shapes of Space 1958-1976
Author: Pola, Francesca
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9788857220833
Description: Milano: Skira, 2013. 28cm., hardcover, 400pp. illus. Exhibition held at Robilant + Voena, London. Italian-English text. Summary: Bonalumi. All the Shapes of Space 1958-1976 showcases a selection from nearly twenty years of his work, reaffirming his key role in the context of a creativity aimed at going beyond informal expression towards a significant reduction of the image in a dialogue with the most creative experiments of the period, such as those of the artists who congregated around the Azimut gallery in Milan and the Zero and Nul groups in Germany and Holland. The exhibition starts from 1958, with the exceptional rediscovery of Senza Titolo that was published in September 1959 in the first issue of the seminal Milanese art journal, Azimuth. The painting is emblematic of the relationship with artists such as Castellani and Manzoni who, like Bonalumi, worked in the wake of Lucio Fontana’s creative legacy. The exhibition reveals the complexity and wealth of Bonalumi’s research on form and material in the transition between the 60s and 70s through the development of his experimentation with shaped canvases, which from the early plastic versions evolve towards large, rhythmic and luminous progressions. The exhibition includes never before exhibited canvases from Italian private collections and an important loan from the Museo Berardo of Lisbon: Bianco from 1964. For the first time ever, Blu abitabile will be shown outside Italy. This environment was created for the historic exhibition “Lo spazio dell’immagine” held in Palazzo Trinci, Foligno in 1967, and was shown again in 1970 at the exhibition “Vitalità del negativo” in the Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome. The piece will be presented in its original configuration.

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