Lot Essay
Eseguito nel 1965, Bianco è un esempio elegante della poetica artistica di Agostino Bonalumi nel periodo più importante nei primi anni della sua carriera. Con una superficie organica e quasi-scultorea, l'opera esemplifica la ricerca continua dell'artista riguardo al rapporto fra colore, luce e forma. Salendo alla ribalta tra l'estetica parallela del gruppo Zero ed il movimento delle Nuove Tendenze, le iconiche tele tridimensionali di Bonalumi hanno cercato di investigare le proprietà di base della materia fisica. Concependo in un modo nuovo la tela come un oggetto percettivo a sé stante, nei primi anni Sessanta, Bonalumi ha cominciato a creare opere inserendo cuscini increspati sotto la superficie pittorica, creando un terreno formale di base su cui la luce, il colore, e lo spazio interagiscono. Riducendo gli elementi compositivi e materici all'essenziale, Bonalumi vuole evidenziare i modi in cui tutti i tre elementi si definiscono e si ridefiniscono l'uno con l'altro.
Executed in 1965, Bianco is an elegant example of Agostino Bonalumi's practice from one of the most important years of his early career. With its organic, near-sculptural surface, it exemplifies the artist's lifelong research into the relationship between colour, light and form. Coming to prominence amidst the parallel aesthetics of the Zero group and the Nuove Tendenze movement, Bonalumi's distinctive three-dimensional canvases sought to investigate the basic properties of physical matter. Reconceiving the canvas as a perceptual object in its own right, in the early 1960s Bonalumi began making works by inserting dimpled cushions beneath the pictorial surface, creating a basic formal terrain upon which light, colour and space could interact. By reducing compositional and material elements to their most essential, Bonalumi sought to highlight the ways in which all three elements define and redefine one another.
Executed in 1965, Bianco is an elegant example of Agostino Bonalumi's practice from one of the most important years of his early career. With its organic, near-sculptural surface, it exemplifies the artist's lifelong research into the relationship between colour, light and form. Coming to prominence amidst the parallel aesthetics of the Zero group and the Nuove Tendenze movement, Bonalumi's distinctive three-dimensional canvases sought to investigate the basic properties of physical matter. Reconceiving the canvas as a perceptual object in its own right, in the early 1960s Bonalumi began making works by inserting dimpled cushions beneath the pictorial surface, creating a basic formal terrain upon which light, colour and space could interact. By reducing compositional and material elements to their most essential, Bonalumi sought to highlight the ways in which all three elements define and redefine one another.