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Paolo Scheggi
Description
- Paolo Scheggi
- Forme riflesse
- firmato, intitolato e datato '63 sul retro
- acrilico verde su tre tele sovrapposte
- cm 60x60x6
Provenance
Collezione Lagorio, Brescia
Galleria d'Arte Niccoli, Parma
Rino Costa Arte Contemporanea, Casale Monferrato
Ivi acquistato dall'attuale proprietario
Exhibited
Literature
Condition
"In response to your inquiry, we are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described above. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective, qualified opinion. Prospective buyers should also refer to any Important Notices regarding this sale, which are printed in the Sale Catalogue.
NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF BUSINESS PRINTED IN THE SALE CATALOGUE."
Catalogue Note
“Scheggi prefers forms that are curved or derived from the rotation of logarithmic spirals and, on canvas surfaces, he makes out the areas according to their spatial determination. […] The out come is a complex and unusual visual depth where light and shade confront each other as the protagonists of the internal life of these surfaces joined in a single structural body. Light, following the path established by the degree of the cut-out curve in an area of the first canvas, determines the throwing of shadows onto the second surface which are transmitted onto the following ones. The circular forms are intensified as a result of their cohabitation with the curved shadows, reflected according to where they have been placed, and unusual spatial areas are the result. Scheggi promotes a visual activity of autonomous and particular sensitivity in the silent inter-spaces caused by the stratification of his perforated surfaces. Thus the resulting display does not take place in the space surrounding the construction. Scheggi searches for an interior force to animate his superimposition of single-coloured planes and he finds it though the gradual vascular subtraction of matter and by going beyond the limits of the closed surface in order to circumscribe an empty space defined by reasons of distance and of rhythmic confrontations with a successive frontal surface.”
Carlo Belolli, 1964