Enrico Castellani
François Morellet
Giulio Paolini
19 April – 2 June 2007
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Enrico Castellani, François Morellet and Giulio Paolini,threeimportant figures in contemporary art who share various analogies in their work, meet for the first time at Studio Dabbeni.
Enrico Castellani (1930) will present four “white surfaces” expressly created for the exhibition. The extraversions and introversions that modulate his surfaces–always rigorously monochrome–are placed in relation to the light, establishing a relationship between light and shade that is precise, calibrated and meditative.
François Morellet (1926) is represented by works of art that clearly summarise the twofold personality of the artist. In one of his essays from 1991, he confessed that he dreamed of being “a Baroque Minimalist”. Within this provocative assertion is contained the very substance of the work on exhibit, where chaos and chance are juxtaposed with rigor in an uninterrupted dialogue between the artist’s past and present.
“Finale di partita” (“Endgame”) is the strongly evocative title, mindful of literary references, of the work that Giulio Paolini (1940) conceived explicitly for the exhibit. Paolini starts out with a squared surface that is fragmented into a set of elements that take on an independent existence, while always referring to a “whole”. The fragments are like pieces of a dismantled chessboard that are scattered upon the walls of the rooms on the first floor of the gallery according to a careful order, which confers fascination and tension to the space.
Opening
Thursday 19 April - 18.00
Duration
19 April - 2 June 2007
Opening Hours
Tuesday - Friday
09.30 - 12.00 14.30 - 18.30
Saturday
09.30 - 12.00 14.30 - 17.00
Sunday/Monday Closed
