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Giuseppe Capogrossi
Giuseppe Capogrossi
Giuseppe Capogrossi
Giuseppe Capogrossi was born in Rome on 7 March 1900. After graduating in law, he devoted himself to painting and in 1923 attended Felice Carena's Libera Scuola di Nudo in Rome. Between 1927 and 1933, he made stayed in Paris several times, where he developed a figurative and tonal painting style, made up of light and colour, which drew on classical Italian sources. During his long artistic career, he won numerous prizes and awards. From the beginning of the 1940s, he started a transformation of his painting research: colour brightened up in the ranges of reds, purples and oranges.Giuseppe Capogrossi
Giuseppe Capogrossi was born in Rome on 7 March 1900. After graduating in law, he devoted himself to painting and in 1923 attended Felice Carena's Libera Scuola di Nudo in Rome. Between 1927 and 1933, he made stayed in Paris several times, where he developed a figurative and tonal painting style, made up of light and colour, which drew on classical Italian sources. During his long artistic career, he won numerous prizes and awards. From the beginning of the 1940s, he started a transformation of his painting research: colour brightened up in the ranges of reds, purples and oranges.Intro
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The work Surface 154 is characterised by Capogrossi's sign-symbol, the 'fork shape', which is repeated in sequence in various positions and dimensions creating voids and solids. Like in all Capogrossi's work, an obsessive and primitive rhythm is created, emphasised by the chromatic choice based on only two colours, black and white, suspended by the inclusion of small traces of red and orange. The work becomes a charged field in which the balance between empty and full spaces is implemented, perhaps also suggested by Zen thought, for which emptiness is not nothingness, but absence, lack and therefore a place that encloses invisible forms of potential energy.
The work is located at Gallerie d'italia - Milano.
The work Surface 154 is characterised by Capogrossi's sign-symbol, the 'fork shape', which is repeated in sequence in various positions and dimensions creating voids and solids. Like in all Capogrossi's work, an obsessive and primitive rhythm is created, emphasised by the chromatic choice based on only two colours, black and white, suspended by the inclusion of small traces of red and orange. The work becomes a charged field in which the balance between empty and full spaces is implemented, perhaps also suggested by Zen thought, for which emptiness is not nothingness, but absence, lack and therefore a place that encloses invisible forms of potential energy.
The work is located at Gallerie d'italia - Milano.