We look forward to seeing you at miart Allianz Pavilion MiCo South – Level 0
Stand G05 with works by Accardi, Baj, Baruchello, Calderara, Capogrossi, Castellani, Chia, Colombo, De Kooning, Dorazio, Fontana, Griffa, Isgrò, Kounellis, Paladino, Pistoletto, Puglisi, Rotella, Salvo, Schifano, Simeti
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Studio Guastalla presents a stand focused on Italian art from the 1960s to the 1980s, a period that saw the confrontation between avant-garde movements linked to a 20th-century idea of breaking with the past and the return to painting in the late 1970s and 1980s, with an idea of overcoming the avant-garde and the idea of a linear time in which each period constitutes an innovation with respect to the previous one.
Between the 1960s and 1980s, the figure of the artist and his or her art changed radically. After denying the uniqueness of the artist, the art of movements such as Gruppo Zero, Punto, and Nul set itself the goal of going beyond emotionality and romanticism, proposing works that were radical in their use of synthetic materials, their programmed repetitiveness, and their conceptuality. We will present works by artists such as Gianni Colombo, but also Giorgio Griffa, whose lines traced on the canvas by hand chase each other, narrating their becoming. The artist says of his painting that the relationship between painting and painter is equal, “the painter’s hand at the service of painting, of its physical intelligence and the millennial memory that man has given it, the work is born from their collaboration, the painter also an instrument of becoming, a simple instrument rather than an emulator of the Creator.” We will present Emilio Isgrò‘s “cancellations” in which the words, both erased and not erased, seem to take on a life of their own, beyond the artist’s intention, in a game of references all within the text.
At the end of the 1970s, this vision of progress that makes everyone equal and in which artists are almost mere revelators of perceptions common to all entered into a profound crisis, and art returned to painting, to manual skill, to the idea of the uniqueness of the imagination and creativity of the individual, to a fluidity of history in which there is no possibility of progressive improvement. We will present works from this period by Salvo, Sandro Chia and Mimmo Paladino, both paintings and sculptures.
