Mazzoleni is pleased to announce its participation at TEFAF Maastricht 2020. The presentation will feature works by major post-war artists with a focus on research between material and gesture, surface and structure. The gallery will highlight works by Giacomo Balla, Alberto Burri, Lucio Fontana and Hans Hartung, amongst others.
A selection of 'Concetto Spaziale' works on canvas from the mid 1950s by Lucio Fontana will be presented. With cuts and holes, Fontana opened the surface of the canvas to a third dimension: on display will be examples of the artist's holes series, which highlight the use of fragments of coloured glass or silvery powder to accentuate his essential concept. Also featured will be a striking ceramic work, Maschera (1951). During the early 1950s Fontana's ceramics became increasingly abstract and the finish, colour and texture were influenced by his theories on spatialism.
Renowned artist, Alberto Burri will be represented by works spanning from the 1950s to the 1980s, which will investigate the surface and shed light on the development of his technique and use of material.
Gestural abstraction will be presented with dynamic paintings by the pioneers of Art Informel, Pierre Soulages, Hans Hartung and Jean-Paul Riopelle. The sheer physicality of scratches as mark-making on the canvas from the 1960s can be witnessed in works such as T1963-E10 (1963), a stunning vinylic and pastel on canvas by Hartung.
A Futurist master, Giacomo Balla signed the second Futurist painting manifesto of 1910 with Umberto Boccioni, Carlo CarrĂ , Luigi Russolo, and Gino Severini. Even in his earliest paintings, his objective was to analyse the effect of light. He will be represented by Linee Forze di Mare - Rosa (ca. 1919), an oil on canvas, which skilfully balances complementary colours and investigates the idea of light in motion on the rippling lines of the sea.
Balla's early teachings were pivotal to a set of artists that became known as the 'Forma 1' group. From after the Second World War, these artists attempted to find a compromise between abstraction and realism. On display will be an exemplary untitled oil on canvas from 1959 by Piero Dorazio. Dorazio's reference to Compenetrazioni iridescenti by Giacomo Balla engendered his research of the 'perceptive' plane. Mazzoleni produced the exhibition Light in Motion (2017), which presented Balla's and Dorazio's paintings alongside the first studies by Gianfranco Zappettini.