CONTEMPORARY ART
 

Mixed technique on paper. On the back the signature, the date and the title of the work. Also accompanied by photo authentication, with exhibition label at the Galerie CC in Graz. From the early 1970s, the Modenese artist Franco Guerzoni began a personal research dedicated to the exploration of the world of archeology, and to memory; Guerzoni likes memories, in the most positive sense of the term: personal memories and collective memories, constantly poured into his works which thus become dense with stratifications of matter and thoughts, sedimented by time and by the mind in the bed of the river of art. What emerges is a multitude of stories that the tireless artist has always collected starting from the first experiments with photography, passing through the study of archeology, up to artist's books and works with plaster. It comes from an important Milanese private historical collection.

Archeology of the Night 1992

Mixed technique on paper. On the back the signature, the date and the title of the work. Also accompanied by photo authentication, with exhibition label at the Galerie CC in Graz. From the early 1970s, the Modenese artist Franco Guerzoni began a personal research dedicated to the exploration of the world of archeology, and to memory; Guerzoni likes memories, in the most positive sense of the term: personal memories and collective memories, constantly poured into his works which thus become dense with stratifications of matter and thoughts, sedimented by time and by the mind in the bed of the river of art. What emerges is a multitude of stories that the tireless artist has always collected starting from the first experiments with photography, passing through the study of archeology, up to artist's books and works with plaster. It comes from an important Milanese private historical collection

Pyramids 1976

Composition in three pieces, photographic and mixed technique. On the back there is a label from Galleria Studio 47 with the data of the work (title, date and technique); the inventory number of the work is also present. It is also accompanied by an authentication on photo signed by the artist. From the early 1970s, the Modenese artist Franco Guerzoni began a personal research dedicated to the exploration of the world of archeology and memory; Guerzoni likes memories, in the most positive sense of the term: personal memories and collective memories, constantly poured into his works which thus become dense with stratifications of matter and thoughts, sedimented by time and by the mind in the bed of the river of art. What emerges is a multitude of stories that the tireless artist has always collected starting from the first experiments with photography, passing through the study of archeology, up to artist's books and works with plaster. The work is presented in a frame. It comes from an important Milanese private collection.

The Forgotten Parts 1991

Mixed technique on paper. On the back the signature, the date and the title of the work. Also accompanied by photo authentication, with exhibition label at the Galerie CC in Graz. From the early 1970s, the Modenese artist Franco Guerzoni began a personal research dedicated to the exploration of the world of archeology and memory; Guerzoni likes memories, in the most positive sense of the term: personal memories and collective memories, constantly poured into his works which thus become dense with stratifications of matter and thoughts, sedimented by time and by the mind in the bed of the river of art. What emerges is a multitude of stories that the tireless artist has always collected starting from the first experiments with photography, passing through the study of archeology, up to artist's books and works with plaster. It comes from an important Milanese private historical collection.

Shuffle the 1980 Cards

Graphite on paper. On the back there is a label from Galleria Studio 47, showing the data of the work (title and date). From the early 1970s, the Modenese artist Franco Guerzoni began a personal research dedicated to the exploration of the world of archeology and memory; Guerzoni likes memories, in the most positive sense of the term: personal memories and collective memories, constantly poured into his works which thus become dense with stratifications of matter and thoughts, sedimented by time and by the mind in the bed of the river of art. What emerges is a multitude of stories that the tireless artist has always collected starting from the first experiments with photography, passing through the study of archeology, up to artist's books and works with plaster. The work is presented in a Plexiglas case. It comes from an important Milanese private historical collection.

Figure 1979

Pencils on paper. Signed and dated lower right. Ironic, playful, theatrical artist Aldo Spoldi is a painter, sculptor, musician, writer, professor at the Brera Academy and a member of the Pataphysics Society, initially defined as the science of imaginary solutions by its creator, the French writer and playwright Alfred Jarry, and often regarded as a logic of the absurd, an eccentric metaphysical scheme and a parody of metaphysics. Spoldi's production, in all its forms, follows this pataphysical vision of reality. , accruing its variations in the wake of changes in the weather. This figure of a man on a bicycle appears almost visionary, due to its lack of parts, as if the character were dissolving. The work is presented in a frame.

Sounds Silence 1992

Graphite on paper. Signed and dated lower right. Accompanied by a photo with the data of the work (title, date, dimensions, technique) and the archive number of the collection. Using above all watercolor and graphite, Davide Benati gives life to a universe of fluctuating, transitory and fleeting forms, expressed through a cultured painting, made up of suggestions and literary and personal memories; his figures draw on the world of nature, where flowers and leaves become a pure pictorial organism, where spatiality prevails. The work comes from an important historical private collection in Milan. It is presented in a frame.

The Inspection

Oil on canvas. Signed lower right. On the reverse side further signature with declaration of authenticity, and title. Cataloguing of the work in magazines and publications is also cited. Originally from Gattinara in the Vercelli area, Dedo Domenicone loved to depict small animal creatures, often reinterpreted in a fantastic key, and placed in an almost dreamlike environment. The work is presented in a frame.

Fanta Viaggio all'Isola Bella

Oil on canvas. Signed lower right. On the back, further signature with declaration of authenticity, and title. Originally from Gattinara in the Vercelli area, Dedo Domenicone depicted places and characters from his homeland in his works, often reinterpreting them in a fantastical key, such as this view of Isola Bella on Lake Maggiore, overflown by a large insect ridden by a blue child. The work is presented in a frame.

Composition with Figures

Oil on canvas. Signed and dated top right. Additional signature and date on the back. The self-taught artist Claudio Astrologo has favoured social subjects in his painting, without concentrating on denunciation, but rather on a reflection on man. Linked to the Roman milieu of Guttuso, in the post-war period he developed a realist type of figuration, which from the 1960s turned towards an abstract-expressionist language, later arriving at a sort of figurative experimentalism.

Tempera, pencil and charcoal on paper. Signed on the back. The drawing is registered in the Archive Fausto Melotti with code DIS 84020. Fausto Melotti was a multifaceted and very prolific artist and it is almost impossible to link his production to a particular technique or theme, without providing only a partial view of his artistic vision. The salient features that are constant in Melotti are geometry, the study of abstraction, which leads him to use realistic but not scientifically accurate elements, and arranging the elements so that they recall a musical rhythm, a detail that refers to his training as a musician Sculptor, painter, musician, poet, he made numerous design drawings for his works. Drawing represented for him a fundamental exercise, to transfuse the original graphic trait from sheets of paper into sculptures and ceramics. The sculptures for which he is best known are made up of geometric elements made with metals (brass, iron and gold) worked into thin filaments, giving life to ethereal, weightless and almost fragile compositions. The work is presented in a frame.

Pencil on paper. Signed on the back. The drawing is registered in the Fausto Melotti Archive with code DIS 72010, showing the data of the work. Fausto Melotti was a multifaceted and very prolific artist and it is almost impossible to link his production to a particular technique or theme, without providing only a partial view of his artistic vision. The salient features that are constant in Melotti are geometry, the study of abstraction, which leads him to use realistic but not scientifically accurate elements, and arranging the elements so that they recall a musical rhythm, a detail that refers to his training as a musician Sculptor, painter, musician, poet, he made numerous design drawings for his works. Drawing represented for him a fundamental exercise, to transfuse the original graphic trait from sheets of paper into sculptures and ceramics. The sculptures for which he is best known are made up of geometric elements made with metals (brass, iron and gold) worked into thin filaments, giving life to ethereal, weightless and almost fragile compositions. The work is presented in a frame.

Pencil on paper. Signed on the back. The drawing is registered in the Fausto Melotti Archive, with code DIS 72016. Fausto Melotti was a multifaceted and very prolific artist and it is almost impossible to link his production to a particular technique or theme, without providing only a partial view of his vision artistic. The salient features that are constant in Melotti are geometry, the study of abstraction, which leads him to use realistic but not scientifically accurate elements, and arranging the elements so that they recall a musical rhythm, a detail that refers to his training as a musician Sculptor, painter, musician, poet, he made numerous design drawings for his works. Drawing represented for him a fundamental exercise, to transfuse the original graphic trait from sheets of paper into sculptures and ceramics. The sculptures for which he is best known are made up of geometric elements made with metals (brass, iron and gold) worked into thin filaments, giving life to ethereal, weightless and almost fragile compositions. The work is presented in a frame.

Pencil on paper. Signed on the back. The drawing is registered in the Fausto Melotti Archive, with code DIS 79005. Fausto Melotti was a multifaceted and very prolific artist and it is almost impossible to link his production to a particular technique or theme, without providing only a partial view of his vision artistic. The salient features that are constant in Melotti are geometry, the study of abstraction, which leads him to use realistic but not scientifically accurate elements, and arranging the elements so that they recall a musical rhythm, a detail that refers to his training as a musician Sculptor, painter, musician, poet, he made numerous design drawings for his works. Drawing represented for him a fundamental exercise, to transfuse the original graphic trait from sheets of paper into sculptures and ceramics. The sculptures for which he is best known are made up of geometric elements made with metals (brass, iron and gold) worked into thin filaments, giving life to ethereal, weightless and almost fragile compositions. The work is presented in a frame.

Pencil on paper. Signed on the back. The drawing is registered in the Fausto Melotti Archive, with code DIS 80037. Fausto Melotti was a multifaceted and very prolific artist and it is almost impossible to link his production to a particular technique or theme, without providing only a partial view of his vision artistic. The salient features that are constant in Melotti are geometry, the study of abstraction, which leads him to use realistic but not scientifically accurate elements, and arranging the elements so that they recall a musical rhythm, a detail that refers to his training as a musician Sculptor, painter, musician, poet, he made numerous design drawings for his works. Drawing represented for him a fundamental exercise, to transfuse the original graphic trait from sheets of paper into sculptures and ceramics. The sculptures for which he is best known are made up of geometric elements made with metals (brass, iron and gold) worked into thin filaments, giving life to ethereal, weightless and almost fragile compositions. The work is presented in a frame.

The Seeding 1979

Oil on glass. Signed and dated lower right, with the symbol of the artist, the stylized figure of a man in a wheelchair. On the back label with further signature and data of the work. The naive style painting proposes a moment of peasant life, or rather the sowing of the small field; the farmer works in the small plot of land, almost a vegetable garden, with the hens pecking around him, and green hills all around, illuminated by a huge, sparkling sun. It is a work on glass by the painter Mario Previ, who has been living and painting in a wheelchair since the age of eighteen, due to a tetraplegia resulting from a dip in his Taro. He said of himself : "The world, the passage of time, from this point of view (the wheelchair) teach many things. You learn to wake up every morning with a purpose, even if your body is in pain, if every gesture generates suffering and depend on others and giving up could be an easy solution. And instead, art, painting, together with the serenity of my world, of friends, give me incredible energy. They saved me, giving me the strength to live" . In 1974, three years after the accident, inspired by a television broadcast on Yugoslav naive painters, in particular by the works on glass of Mijo Kovacic, Previ began to paint and to learn the art of self-taught painting on glass, up to to be known and appreciated for his paintings. In his naif Mario Previ tells a reality that has almost disappeared, real stories even if in a fairytale tone, he revives lost traditions, slices of life that belonged to other generations, those of peasant civilization (from which, however, he comes), but what most emerges from his visions are the "forë", those that could once be heard in the "firossi" the traditional evenings of the hamlets of Parma dedicated to getting together to tell anecdotes, stories and historical curiosities, often in front of the fire in the fireplace, when outside it was cold and snowing. The work is presented in a frame.

Saint George 1992

Oil on panel. Signed bottom right. On the back, with Cyrillic characters, there is the title, the date and the location, Bergamo. The Lithuanian artist, who currently lives and works between Moscow, Italy and the United Kingdom, is considered one of the most important contemporary Russian artists. In his large production there are landscapes, still lifes, many portraits of famous people and his surreal compositions, an expression of his peculiar "dream vision" of reality. Even in this table, albeit in the style of traditional icons, the depiction of the famous St. George is proposed in a surreal key that reminds of De Chirico, in which the dragon is replaced by a goose, the Saint's head is an egg, in the outlines there are figures of sorceresses... a clearly unorthodox interpretation! The panel has a vertical slit. The piece is presented in a frame.