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Giuseppe Capogrossi
Description
- Giuseppe Capogrossi
- Superficie 243
- firmato; intitolato sul retro
- olio su tela
- diam. cm 68,5
- Eseguito nel 1957
Provenance
Collezione Fiorentino, Roma
Galleria Emilio Mazzoli, Modena
Ivi acquistato dall'attuale proprietario all'inizio degli anni anni Settanta
Exhibited
Basilea, Galleria Handshin, Capogrossi, 1963, n. 17
Torino, Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna, I pittori italiani dell'Associazione Internazionale Art Plastiche Unesco, 1968, p. 22
Napoli, Galleria Il Centro, Capogrossi, 1971
Roma, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna - Villa Giulia, Giuseppe Capogrossi, 1974-75, p. 80, n. 71
Literature
Condition
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Catalogue Note
The canvases of Capogrossi do not have the character of abstract art. But to what do the sings that appear in his pictures refer and how do they react on each other? Inescapably we identify the marks in his canvases as the records of human activity. But what human activities? the individual marks resemble, especially when arranged in series, alphabets in languages that we cannot read, yet the appearance of sequence and order is so strong as to imply the presence of meaning. There is repetition with different frequencies, like mysterious lists.
Capogrossi's pictures are (...) like the footprints of birds in sand, they act as omens (...).
Roland Penrose, 1957, cit. in Giulio Carlo Argan, Capogrossi, Roma 1967, p. 22
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