Christie's Milan, 28 and 29 April present the next one auction of modern and contemporary art, with only works by Italian artists: Fontana, Bonalumi, Castellani, Pistoletto, Boetti, Melotti, Accardi, Capogrossi etc.
Great overview of "Concetti Spaziali" by Fontana, white and blue, in one or more cuts.
Top Lots:
Lucio Fontana – Spatial Concept, Expectations – estimate 600-900 thousand euros
Lucio Fontana – Spatial Concept, Expectations – estimate 500-600 thousand euros
Lucio Fontana – Spatial Concept, Waiting – estimate 500-700 thousand euros
Lucio Fontana – Spatial Concept, Expectations – estimate 500-800 thousand euros
Lucio Fontana – Spatial Concept, estimate 400-600 thousand euros
Michelangelo Pistoletto – Portrait of Clino – estimate 350-550 thousand euros
Alighiero Boetti – The progressive fading of custom – estimate 350-550 thousand euros
Giorgio Morandi - Still life - estimate 250-350 thousand euros
Of note are the three historical works by Michelangelo Pistoletto e Alighiero Boetti, coming from the collection of Clino Trini Castelli, Italian designer and theorist of 'noform' languages, who has always been attentive to the intangible qualities in design and their role in emotional experience.
This extraordinary ensemble is made up of three seminal works, which are at the origin of Arte Povera: Portrait of Clino from 1963, a unique work, among the very first works by Pistoletto on 'vellum' applied to the mirrored surface; Drawing 5 from 1962, also by Pistoletto, drawing for a 'proto-velina', which opens the season of mirror paintings. Finally, by Alighiero Boetti, the historic Emme I Elle Elle E… from 1970, the wooden foundry matrix from which the subsequent cast iron versions were made.
In addition to constituting a very cohesive and historically important group of works, both in terms of dating and artistic relevance, this collection is a testimony to Clino's deep friendship with Alighiero and Michelangelo. At the same time it represents an important tribute to an entire era, and a rich testimony of the great cultural ferments and the profound transformations of the artistic languages that have taken place in it. What's more: today these works also offer us the possibility of investigating – through the uniqueness of Clino Castelli's experience – the true links between art and design, the relationship between two figurative fields and their way of influencing and evolving over time
