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LUIGI VERONESI
Original maquette for an apparently unpublished book, Paris Expo 1937, Paris, c.1937.
With 47 gelatin silver prints. Some full-page (240 x 230mm), most a variety of sizes (c.90-130 x c.130-90mm) including 13 cut-outs. The majority mounted two to a page, with captions printed on orange paper. Original black spiral binding, with clear plastic front cover, and white plastic back cover, original card slipcase with black paper edges and orange title label on front side.
APPARENTLY UNIQUE MAQUETTE FOR AN UNPUBLISHED BOOK BY ONE OF THE OUTSTANDING FIGURES IN ITALIAN ABSTRACT ART. The Paris 1937 Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la vie Moderne was one of the Great Exhibitions and the last World's Fair to be held in Paris. The Spanish Pavillion exhibited Picasso's Guernica, and the bold German and Russian Pavillions challenged each other across the Champ de Mars -- the tension captured by Veronesi in a dramatic double-page spread in this maquette. While in Paris in the 1930s the photographer and film-maker Luigi Veronesi (1908-1998) frequented Fernand Léger's studio and various avant-garde circles, including Abstraction-Création of which he was a member. He exhibited his first abstract works in 1932 at Milan's Galeria Il Milione; these 'were in stark contrast to the art of the Fascist regime then in vogue' (Grove Art). In 1935 Veronesi's work was shown in Turin's first collective exhibition of abstract art. His experimentations across various fields established Veronesi as one of the great champions in Italian art of the Bauhaus concept of multidimensionality. Romeo Martinez and Bryn Campbell, Luigi Veronesi , Milan: Fabbri, 1983 (reproducing on p.16 Veronesi's striking New Vision photograph of the Eiffel Tower).
Original maquette for an apparently unpublished book, Paris Expo 1937, Paris, c.1937.
With 47 gelatin silver prints. Some full-page (240 x 230mm), most a variety of sizes (c.90-130 x c.130-90mm) including 13 cut-outs. The majority mounted two to a page, with captions printed on orange paper. Original black spiral binding, with clear plastic front cover, and white plastic back cover, original card slipcase with black paper edges and orange title label on front side.
APPARENTLY UNIQUE MAQUETTE FOR AN UNPUBLISHED BOOK BY ONE OF THE OUTSTANDING FIGURES IN ITALIAN ABSTRACT ART. The Paris 1937 Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la vie Moderne was one of the Great Exhibitions and the last World's Fair to be held in Paris. The Spanish Pavillion exhibited Picasso's Guernica, and the bold German and Russian Pavillions challenged each other across the Champ de Mars -- the tension captured by Veronesi in a dramatic double-page spread in this maquette. While in Paris in the 1930s the photographer and film-maker Luigi Veronesi (1908-1998) frequented Fernand Léger's studio and various avant-garde circles, including Abstraction-Création of which he was a member. He exhibited his first abstract works in 1932 at Milan's Galeria Il Milione; these 'were in stark contrast to the art of the Fascist regime then in vogue' (Grove Art). In 1935 Veronesi's work was shown in Turin's first collective exhibition of abstract art. His experimentations across various fields established Veronesi as one of the great champions in Italian art of the Bauhaus concept of multidimensionality. Romeo Martinez and Bryn Campbell, Luigi Veronesi , Milan: Fabbri, 1983 (reproducing on p.16 Veronesi's striking New Vision photograph of the Eiffel Tower).
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