Getulio Alviani
Art for me has always been design. Getulio Alviani was born in Udine on the 5 September 1939. His training took place in architectural studios and in the field of industrial design. Between the late 1950s and the early 1960s, he turned his research to the complex relationships between construction and realisation, working in teams […]
Enrico Castellani
My surfaces in canvas or plastic laminate or other material…are a reflection of that total inner space, devoid of contradictions, that we tend towards, so they last the time of an act of communion. Enrico Castellani was born on the 4 August 1930 in Castelmassa, in the province of Rovigo. In 1952, having successfully completed […]
Piero Manzoni
I find, therefore, the artist who rigidly establishes the limits of a surface on which to create a precise relationship, with a strict balance of shapes and colours, to be incomprehensible; why worry about how to place a line in a space? Why establish a space, why these limitations? Piero Manzoni was born on the […]
Lucio Fontana
Lucio Fontana was born February 19, 1899, in Rosario de Santa Fé, Argentina. His father was Italian and his mother Argentinean. He lived in Milan from 1905 to 1922 and then moved back to Argentina, where he worked as a sculptor in his father’s studio for several years before opening his own one. In 1926, […]
Alberto Burri
Words are of no help to me when I try to talk about my painting. It is an irrepressible presence that refuses to be translated into any other form of expression. It is a presence that is both imminent and active. This is what it means: to exist as well as to paint. My painting […]