Mario Nigro
Mario Nigro is considered to be one of the most significant exponents of post-war geometric abstraction in Italy. Born in 1917 in Pistoia as the son of a professor of mathematics, Nigro’s upbringing predetermined the development of his geometrical-influenced style. Along with painting, he was also greatly influenced by music. Although he had an […]
Mimmo Paladino
Mimmo Paladino is an Italian painter, sculptor, printmaker and draughtsman born in 1948 in Paduli. He attended the Liceo Artisticodi Benevento from 1964 to 1968. In the early 1970s he focused on drawing, developing much of the imagery that later appeared in his paintings. He had his first solo exhibitions in 1976 at the […]
Gianfranco Pardi
Gianfranco Pardi was born in 1933 in Milan. From the outset his art was based on space and a constructivist organisation, which led to works of great formal rigour, where drawing, painting and sculpture were integrated into a spatial dimension that was architectural in scope. In 1959 he held his first solo exhibition at […]
Ivan Picelj
Ivan Picelj was a student at the Fine Arts Academy in Zagreb between 1943 and 1946. He abandoned his studies to begin experimental research that moved away from the impositions of the official art language. In 1951, together with architects Bernardo Bernardi, Zdravko Bregovac, Zvonimir Radić, Božidar Rašica, Vjenceslav Richter and Vladimir Zarahović, and […]
Otto Piene
Otto Piene was a German kinetic artist and co-founder of the ZERO avant-guard group. A pioneer of media art, Piene worked with light and motion to produce mesmerising displays. At the core of his practice was the desire to study technological processes and harness them to create a sense of movement. “Light is my medium,” […]
Arnaldo Pomodoro
Arnaldo Pomodoro was born in Montefeltro in 1926, he spent his childhood and education in Pesaro. He lives and works in Milan since 1954. His works from the 1950s are high-reliefs where a unique and previously unknown sculptural “writing” emerged, variously interpreted by the most important critics. In the early 1960s he turned to three-dimensional […]
Giuseppe Santomaso
Giuseppe Santomaso was born in Venice on 26 September 1907. The son of a master goldsmith and dealer in precious stones, he trained as a jeweller but soon developed a passion for painting that was ultimately to prevail over his father’s wishes. 1934 saw Santomaso’s first participation in the Venice Biennial, a turning point […]
Turi Simeti
Turi Simeti was born in 1929 in Alcamo, in the province of Trapani, Italy. He studied law in Palermo, and in 1958 he moved to Rome. There he started his first contact with the art world, knowing, among others, Alberto Burri, that influenced his artistic practice. During those years, he spent some periods of stay […]
Jesus Rafael Soto
Jesús Rafael Soto is one of the most important kinetic artists of the 20th century. He began his artistic career at a very young age, painting posters for movie theatres in his home town of Ciudad Bolívar. In 1942, he received a scholarship to study art and art history at the Escuela de Artes […]
Günther Uecker
Günther Uecker, also known as Guenther Uecker, is a German sculptor, Op artist and installation artist. Uecker was born in Wendorf in 1930, Mecklenburg. He began his artistic education in 1949, when he took up studies at Wismar. He then went to the art school in Berlin-Weißensee and, in 1955, to Düsseldorf, where he […]
