Surface 213
Writing, alphabet, glyphs, the teeth of a comb, forks, segmented tears, locks, chains, claws: the graphic figures of Capogrossi’s signic language express themselves on the canvas in ever-changing modulations. The sign is never repeated as an end unto itself, but is developed in a series of variations, which, as Argan noted in 1967, find a literary parallel in Raymond Queneau’s Exercises in Style, published in 1947, in that, using the same words, the French writer stages narrative situations whose content changes each time it is told. Surface 213 and its counterpart Surface 231 (1957, Simeoni Collection, Florence) are an example of this modulation, in that the variable consists in the positive-negative effect of the colour and the partitioning of the canvas like a card index.
giuseppe capogrossi (1900 – 1972)
Discover Giuseppe Capogrossi: Italian painter blending Renaissance & modernism. Bold brushstrokes, abstract art, & key figure in Venetian & Roman art scenes.
Galleria Civica di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea Torino (Torino, Italia)
Oppdag GAM Torino, et fremragende museum for moderne og samtidskunst i Italia, med samlinger av futurisme, Arte Povera, Modigliani og Andy Warhol.
Om dette kunstverket
- Tittel: Surface 213
- Kunstner: giuseppe capogrossi
- Format: Landscape
- Opphavsrettslig status: Opphavsrettslig beskyttet
- Utstillingssted: Galleria Civica di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea Torino
- Hovedfarge: Bronze
- Fargetone: Green Spectrum
