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First published on 12 June 2020
First published on 12 June 2020
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The exhibition activity starts again at the Dep Art Gallery, presenting In the Matter of Color, an all-Italian show with around twenty artworks by Natale Addamiano, Alberto Biasi, Pino Pinelli, Turi Simeti, open until the 31st July. The project
Along with artists like Lucio Fontana, Enrico Castellani, Piero Manzoni and Agostino Bonalumi, Turi Simeti played an active role in the Zero art movement of 1960s and 1970s. Still actively creating today, Simeti is considered a true pioneer, a
Alberto Biasi was born in 1937 in Padua, where he still resides. He is one of the protagonists of Italian art in the postwar period, as well as one of the founders of the historic Gruppo N. After the loss of his mother, he passed part of his
Natale Addamiano was born in Bitetto (Bari), 12th of May 1943. Lives and works in Milan. In 1968, Addamiano moved to Milan to enroll in the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera where he graduated in painting in 1972. In 1971, he held his first solo
Pino Pinelli was born in 1938 in Catania, Italy. Pinelli’s works explore the essence of painting itself through the innovative use of materials and formal experiments, creating mixed-media geometric forms which mimic either outlines or
