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Lucio Del Pezzo
Les maîtres-teinturiers, 1966
Acrylic on wood
130 x 160 x 40 cm
Les maîtres-teinturiers, 1966
Acrylic on wood
130 x 160 x 40 cm
Press Release
Lucio Del Pezzo
Sagittarius
Opening: November 11, 2014
November 12, 2014 - January 10, 2015
Sagittarius
Opening: November 11, 2014
November 12, 2014 - January 10, 2015
After Lucio Del Pezzo’s last exhibition dating back to 2009, the Marconi Foundation is pleased to present a selection of works executed by the artist from the mid Sixties to the early Seventies.
Born and educated in Naples, the artist settles in Milan in 1960 where he takes part in the city’s fertile climate. He then moves to Paris and establishes himself in an apartment that was the former atelier of Max Ernst. In France his work soon gains international resonance.
Lucio Del Pezzo’s creative path gradually evolves from the neodada figuration of his early years, imbued with references to Neapolitan popular culture, to a rational geometry of metaphysical inspiration, where essential forms evoke archetypes related to pop culture.
The works that the artist elaborates with an original inspiration and a passion for craftsmanship are part of a unique style, where metaphysical spirit and playful elements are combined.
At the first floor of the Foundation the modular sculpture Sagittarius will be on show, together with some preliminary sketches (1969) calling to mind the rigour and the balance typical of architecture, for which Del Pezzo has always had a predilection.
Born and educated in Naples, the artist settles in Milan in 1960 where he takes part in the city’s fertile climate. He then moves to Paris and establishes himself in an apartment that was the former atelier of Max Ernst. In France his work soon gains international resonance.
Lucio Del Pezzo’s creative path gradually evolves from the neodada figuration of his early years, imbued with references to Neapolitan popular culture, to a rational geometry of metaphysical inspiration, where essential forms evoke archetypes related to pop culture.
The works that the artist elaborates with an original inspiration and a passion for craftsmanship are part of a unique style, where metaphysical spirit and playful elements are combined.
At the first floor of the Foundation the modular sculpture Sagittarius will be on show, together with some preliminary sketches (1969) calling to mind the rigour and the balance typical of architecture, for which Del Pezzo has always had a predilection.
At the second floor a selection of complementary works will be on display to illustrate the distinctive elements making part of the artist’s production and giving an interesting overview of his work; from the Piccolo casellario of 1966, mixed media on board that reveals in advance the gradual mutation of the two-dimensional painting, to the Casellario 40 elementi of 1974 evoking a primitive life with its fronzen symbols to the limit of unconscious, and from the “painted thunderbolt” of Les maîtres teinturiers (1966), to the “sculpted” one of Arc en ciel, Zig-zag (1967) and Visual Box (1968), where the painting progressively turns into a sculpture, a relief, a collage including real elements plunged into a dreamlike and surreal atmosphere. Together with the text, written by Tommaso Trini, on Sagittarius on the occasion of one of the first exhibitions of Lucio Del Pezzo at the Studio Marconi (December 4, 1969), a new critical text by the same author will be published in Quaderno della Fondazione Marconi no. 16, illustrated by the works on show.
The exhibition will continue at the Studio Marconi ’65 where some sketches executed for Sagittarius, works on paper, drawings and multiples, comprised between 1966 and 1973, will be on display.
The exhibition will continue at the Studio Marconi ’65 where some sketches executed for Sagittarius, works on paper, drawings and multiples, comprised between 1966 and 1973, will be on display.