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Item Number: 137104
Title: La pittura in sè : The Painting Itself : Ulrich Erben, Pino Pinelli, Claude Viallat
Author: Stella, Dominique (ed)
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9788895618043
Description: Genova: ABC ARTE, 2015. 22cm., pbk., 97pp. illus. Italian-English text. Exhibition catalogue. Summary: When painting itself becomes the object of painting, it is not aimed to represent, evoke or express anymore. Its only aim is itself and the fact it does exists on its own as applied, contrasted colour, as substance bringing light, shade and tone on the canvas or any other support able to show it up. Painting is defined through its own purposes, it is not a medium anymore. It has become content itself. During the recent history of painting, particularly in the Seventies, in Italy, France and Europe in general as well as in the United States, the issue about monochrome legacy was raised. Monochrome was widely investigated by post-war artists like Fontana and Klein, the Zero Group or Manzoni in Italy or Rauschenberg with his 1951 White Paintings in the United States. Breaking with the past traditions, a pictorial abstraction called Astrazione analitica found its own space assimilating monochrome as its basic concept and going beyond expressionism, between painting and not-painting. Its identity includes conceptual aspects of not-painting, such as the rejection of the picture's surface, intended as a fixed geometry made by the four sides of a stretched canvas. Tough it did maintain the use of colour as related to texture, tonality and shades with their own subliminal effects. In the changing times of the late Sixties, some movements theorized their artistic purposes, thanks to their conceptual influences, and led a research which has also been developed in Italy by Analytical painting, headed by Pino Pinelli, and in France by the Supports/Surfaces group, in which Claude Viallat was active. Painting reinvents itself also in the rest of Europe, especially in England, Germany and the Netherlands. Ulrich Erben represents the German school in the exhibition.
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