Lot 8
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Agostino Bonalumi

Estimate
220,000 - 280,000 EUR
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Description

  • Agostino Bonalumi
  • Bianco
  • firmato e datato 67 sul retro
  • tela estroflessa e tempera vinilica
  • cm 150x120

Provenance

Collezione Nicola Rusconi, Milano
Asta Sotheby's Londra, XX Century Italian Art, 21 ottobre 2002
Acquistato dall'attuale proprietario nella prima metà degli anni Duemila

Exhibited

Darmstadt, Institut Mathildenhöhe, Agostino Bonalumi, 2003-2004, p. 166, illustrato a colori

Literature

Fabrizio Bonalumi, Marco Meneguzzo, Agostino Bonalumi. Catalogo ragionato, Milano 2015, p. 406, n. 334, illustrato

Condition

This work is in generally good overall condition. There are traces of soiling mostly along the margins. There is a light trace of craquelure lower right and along the edges. Under UV light is visible a minor retouching by the left lower edge and one by the right center edge.
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Catalogue Note

"La ricerca artistica è rilfessione sull'arte come oggettivazione e come rispecchiamento della realtà, approfondimento attraverso sé stesso che l'uomo compie nella problematicità del rapporto tra sé e il reale.
Rapporto che è tensione percorsa da oscillazioni e modificazioni. Le variazioni su un tema formale sono rilettura del tema in chiave di spostamento di alcuni elementi e su uno scorrimento dei rapporti tra loro. 
Rapporti ed elementi che non possono però subire modificazioni se non in termini dettati dall'economia - che, per le stesse ragioni non può sopportare inserimenti o sollecitazioni esterne - dell'immagine base, che altrimenti risulterebbe infranta nella sua indiscutibilità e finitezza.
Un tale scorrere dell'immagine su sé stessa in un moto di pendolarità controllabile esige che il suo organizzarsi in forma avvenga per rapporti aritmetici."

Agostino Bonalumi, Rigore, ripetizione, ricerca, 1975, cit. in Agostino Bonalumi, Catalogo Ragionato, Milano 2015, vol. I, p. 82

"Artistic research is reflection on art as objectification and as a reflection of reality, further study performed by man in the problematic relationship between self and reality. 
A tense relationship marked by fluctuations and changes. The variations on a formal theme are the reinterpretation of the theme in terms of shifting certain elements and the flow of relationship between them.
Relationships and elements that cannot however undergo changes except in terms dictated by the economy - that, for the same reasons cannot support additions or external stresses - of the basic image, which otherwise would no longer be unquestionable and finite.
This flowing of the image over itself with a controllable pendular motion demands that it is structured as a form by means of arithmetic relationships."

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