Review: The Gallant Apparel - Italian Art and the Modern
Exhibitions in the classically-styled gallery of Italian dealers Edmondo Di Robilant and Marco Voena have usually been linked to old master sales or the bombastic worlds of Lachapelle and Schnabel, but this is an exemplary survey of the Italian scene 550 years on from Raphael's heyday. The 1950's development of Fontana's holes, then later slashes, as means of puncturing the illusionistic plane is well-demonstrated. There's an exceptionally lustrous nail-protrusion picture by Castellani, a Fibonacci progression series by Merz which has a witty underlying logic, a couple of De Dominicis' enigmatic post-conceptually silent faces, and interesting work by others including the less familiar Remo Bianco, Agostino Bonalumi, Dadamaino and Paolo Scheggi.
| Review Date | 11 Oct 2010 20:40 |
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Fantastic Insight into Italian Modern Art |
