In Perugia the alphabet without words from Afro, Burri, Paregrossi – Perugia

Perugia – In Perugia, an exhibition is preparing to find out the stylistic turning point that three protagonists of the Italian formally the figurative research of the 1930s and 40s would overcome in the early 1950s, a formal individuality of international scope.
The transition from the figuration to the abstraction of masters such as Afro Basaldella, Alberto Burri, Giuseppe Paregrossi will accompany the exhibition entitled Afro Burri Dizzy. Alphabet without wordsExpect from April 18 to July 6 in Palazzo della Penna – Center for Contemporary Arts.
There will be more than a hundred works from the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rome, from the Academy of Visual Arts of Perugia, from Foundations, of the Archives of the Artists and by countless private dedicated, on the occasion of the path that was edited by Luca Pietroe Nicoleti and Moirini Alessandro Sartal, produced and produced and organized and organized and organized and organized and organized and organized and organized and organized and organized and organized and organized and organized and organized and organized and organized and organized and organized. Mainz, with the participation of the Fondazione Archivio Afro, Palazzo Albizzzini Burri Collection, Capogrossi Archive Foundation.

Alberto Burri, Feast of the Dead, 1945, oil on canvas | Photo: © Alessandro Sarteanesi | Courtesy © Palazzo Albizzzini Foundation Burri Collection, Città di Castello

To unite Afro, Burri and Padogrossi were also their active presence in Rome, a fundamental joint point for those studies that will lead them to investigate the French and American models. In fact, the capital represented a place of meetings and a springboard in the direction of the international scene, in particular New Yorker, where the research of the three has been given considerable success. As Afro – who was in New York in New York in 1950 to work with Catherine Viviano Gallery – abandoned a neocubist painting to an abstract, characterized by an intense stural freedom, by an expressive and lyrical use of color, with a characteristic veil racing at the transition from 1947 -47 -47 -47 -4! Abstract alphabet.

With the modulation of his “sign” of elementary simplicity in infinite combinations, dizziness quickly becomes a protagonist, up to the point that they are represented in the United States in 1955, along with Afro and Burri, to the fundamental exhibition T.He’s new decade. 22 European painters and sculptorsset up in MoMa.

Giuseppe Capogrossi, Surface 14, 1953 | Courtesy Repetto Gallery

The exhibition trip to Palazzo della Penna will devote a section to the works on Afro, Burri and Paregrossi-Kaper, which draws attention to the theme of drawing, in which the attempts, hypotheses and forgiveness ideas about novelty arise.
Some archive materials, of which movements are not published, under catalogs, artists’ books, magazines will show that critics, poets and writers are feeding on the three artists.