PITTURA ANALITICA
Ieri e Oggi
Curated by Alberto Fiz
Pittura Analitica Ieri e Oggi is an important exhibition project curated by Alberto Fiz which is held at Primo Marella Gallery in Milan during EXPO2015. The exhibition aims to analize one of the most important European artistic experience of the last century thanks to two different exhibitions. The first one - from June, 11th to September, 13rd - investigates Pittura Analitica of the 70s, while the second one - from September, 23rd to October, 26th - presents how the movement has developed its language since the 2000. The last chapter of the project is going to be hosted from Primae Noctis Art Gallery in Lugano from November, 26th 2015 to January, 12th 2016.
These exhibitions are a unique opportunity to reread (read under a new/an updated light) in an exhaustive manner an artistic experience that is still surprisingly dynamic, even after 40 years from its birth.
The show chooses a new way to approach Pittura Analitica: both new works and historical ones has been put together in order to stress their exhisiting continuity. That also let the public reflect on the transformations born in a sphere characterized by linguistic and semantic coherence.
Pittura Analitica is a break movement defenitly able to take its autonomy against Minimalism and Arte Povera, as well as against the expressionistic and materic research. The investigation is based on a constant dialectic ambiguity, in which the line made by the paint is recovered in its radicalism and autonomy inside a contest where an artwork is first of all a reflection on its nature, on its history and on its vicissitudes. All that is obtained through an experimental process that directly involves media and materials.
The doctrinal consistency of other movements of the Seventies is deeply questioned by Pittura Analitica, that because of its inherent characteristics, very unorthodox, appears today as a one of the most influent experience, especially when compared to a fluid and fragmented contemporaneity. Indeed it is not a casual fact that this artistic current has had ample reflections all across Europe, especially in Germany and France. In this review Primo Marella Gallery in cooperation with the curator Alberto Fiz analyze the major Italian protagonists of this movement that are still active today (with the expection of Paolo Cotani, who died in 2011).
The presented artists are: Enzo Cacciola, Vincenzo Cecchini, Paolo Cotani, Marco Gastini, Giorgio Griffa, Riccardo Guarneri, Elio Marchegiani, Paolo Masi, Carmengloria Morales, Claudio Olivieri, Pino Pinelli, Claudio Verna, Gianfranco Zappettini.
The exhibitions are accompanied by a catalog in Italian and English published by Silvana Editoriale that, next to the essay by Alberto Fiz, includes a wide selection of works by each artist and theirPittura
Acrylic on canvas - Cm 100 x 140
Strisce grigie e gialle
1970 - Mixed media on canvas - Cm 70 x 65
Giallo sferico
1971 - Mixed media on canvas - Cm 123 x 123
Cartone
1972 - Mixed media on paper - Cm 40 x 40
Carta millimetrata e linearizzata
1972 - Mixed media on paper - Cm 40 x 40
Senza titolo
1972 - Graphite and oil on canvas - Cm 140 x 40
Dal grigio
1972 - Graphite and plaster on canvas - Cm 120 x 70
A, B
1972 - Scratched plexiglass - Cm 25 x 63
Tessitura
1973 - Trace of wire steeped in color on rough Guinea canvas - Cm 60 x 60
12-07-1973
1973 - Industrial paint and oil on canvas - Cm 100,5 x 100
Grammature di colore su gomma
1973 - Rubber - Cm 149 x 100
Topologia
1973 - Acrylic on canvas - Cm 70 x 70
Grammature di colore - supporto lavagnaGrammature di colore - supporto lavagna
1974 - Mixed media - Cm 54,5 x 54,5
Grammature di colore - supporto lavagna
1974 - Mixed media - Cm 54,5 x 54,5
Metacromia
1974 - Oil on canvas - Cm 120 x 150
Grammature di colore - supporto intonaco
1974 - Mixed media - Cm 54,5 x 54,5
Grammature di colore - supporto intonaco
1974 - Mixed media - Cm 54,5 x 54,5
Pittura
1974 - Oil on canvas - Cm 50 x 170
Verde LN
1975 - graphite and oil on canvas - Cm 60 x 50 each
Segni orizzontali
1975 - Acrylic on canvas - Cm 40 x 49
Bende
1975 - Bandages and acrylic on canvas - Cm 150 x 150
Dittico R 75-3-2
1975 - Graphite on canvas and natural canvas - Cm 70 x 70 each
Dittico R 75-12-1
1975 - Graphite on canvas and natural canvas - Cm 200 x 50 each
Pittura BL
1975 - Acrylic on canvas - Cm 95 x 95
Fili battuti
1976 - Mixed media on canvas - Cm 60 x 60
Obliquo
1976 - Acrylic on canvas - Cm 48 x 55
Temperato
1976 - Oil on canvas - Cm 100 x 130
Cartone
1977 - Mixed media on paper - Cm 40 x 40
Cartone
1977 - Mixed media on paper - Cm 40 x 40
12-03-1977
1977 - Concrete on canvas - Cm 100 x 150
A4, B4
1977 - Acrylicss, pearl white, contè pastels on canvas - Cm 47,5 x 96,5
Prezioso con grammature nero non colore e oro K24
1977 - Mixed media - Cm 23 x 23
Grammature di non colore nero - supporto lavagna 'diagonale in arco'
1978 - Mixed media - Cm 54,5 x 54,5
Grammatue d'oro K24 - supporto lavagna ' Diagonali'
1978 - Mixed media - Cm 34,5 x 34,5
Blu accanto
1978 - Oil on canvas - Cm 180 x 140
25-11-1973 Superficie integrativa
2011 - Industrial paint on canvas - Cm 105 x 148