Exhibition “Piero Dorazio, la nuova pittura, opere 1963-1968” curated by Francesco Tedeschi

Color is the protagonist of space and form in the exhibition dedicated to Italian painter Piero Dorazio, one of the leading representatives of European Abstractionism. Set up in the exhibition spaces of Galleria d’Arte Moderna Achille Forti and Galleria dello Scudo, the rigorous scientific exhibition is centered on a selection of over thirty paintings from the artist’s heirs and from public and private collections. The event is organized by GAM and Galleria dello Scudo in collaboration with the Piero Dorazio Archive. The exhibition gives a novel view of the Italian painter’s production between 1963 and 1968, when the reticular structure of his works dated 1959-1962, gives way to a new compositional system, the result of an investigation into the ways in which color becomes the protagonist of space and form, when his research manifests a renewed inventive freedom. These are the years of Pop Art and social contrasts animating the younger generations, hints that Dorazio takes up and relaunches in a painting understood as a field of tensions and inventiveness, albeit in correlation with the references to the historical avant-gardes – Futurism, Kazimir Malevič’s Suprematism and Piet Mondrian's Neo-Plasticism – and with the artistic and theoretical production of his recent past.

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