From 13 June to 15 September 2015, Galleria Spirale Milano opens a temporary venue on the Lucca coast in Forte dei Marmi (via Giosuè Carducci 45) and hosts the exhibition Percezioni visive. Integration between real spaces and virtual spaces that offers 36 works by Agostino Bonalumi, Enrico Castellani, Lucio Fontana, Paolo Scheggi, historical exponents of that current defined by Gillo Dorfles, Object Art, which is accompanied by a substantial section dedicated to Giuseppe Amadio, in collaboration with the Giuseppe Amadio Archive.
A common feature of object artists is the creation of three-dimensional elements, real object-paintings, without any figurative reference, in which the canvas, often monochrome, is enlivened by underlying structures, whether they are wooden and metal shapes or nails, to give it a sculptural meaning. In these works, which recall Marcel Duchamp in his Dadaist experiments, but also Man Ray and Pop Art, the canvas, the frame and the intrusions form a single element inseparable in its parts, on pain of losing its very essence.
For his part, Giuseppe Amadio made the lesson of these artists his own, reaching new expressive outcomes, albeit in line with those dictates. As Vittorio Sgarbi writes in the monograph on Giuseppe Amadio, entitled 'estro…ri…flessioni': “even in Amadio's extroflections, each object is a different story, an adventure of form that justifies itself on its own, the result of a primary idea, of course, but also of a putting into practice that becomes fundamental in the elaboration of the artistic fact and refuses to be a simple pretext of the initial dictation, a way like any other to affirm the goodness of his creed, reproposing, if anything, the rights of a precise configuration capacity, even artisanal, aimed at devising, shaping in the median and elusive dimension, still awaiting definition, of the "slightly more than flat", or "slightly less than completely round", if you prefer, that which in the past was recognized in the bas-relief, or rather the sculpture that more than any other, expressing its maximum willingness to illustrate the noble theme par excellence, the historia, aspired to overlap with painting”.
VISUAL PERCEPTIONS. Integration between real spaces and virtual spaces
Forte dei Marmi (LU), Galleria Spirale Milan (via Giosuè Carducci 45)
13 June – 15 September 2015
