Structure and identity
A series of art works by Italian renowned artist Gianfranco Zappettini goes on show next week at Richard Koh Fine Art in Kuala Lumpur.
Running from July 6 to 27, the exhibition features an overview of the artist’s structural works from 1966 to his most recent series.
Zappettini considers colour more than a cover, rather as an element essential to composing the inner structure of the painting. He also believes that painting should not suffer from an inferiority complex in confronting other disciplines belonging to the Pittura Analitica (Analytic Painting) movement in Italy, which emerged in the 1970s.
This exhibition will feature 14 works from the past 5 decades of the artist’s practice, recording his journey through his structural “superimposed canvases” to his recent paintings from “La trama e l’ordito” (“The Weft and the Warp”) where he revisits the Genoese macrame tradition.
Zappettini’s earlier interests are revealed in his “superimposed canvases” which challenged the Conceptual Art and Arte Povera movements by removing any form of individuality. Replacing a paintbrush with a paint-roller, Zappettini added layers to conceal identity.
Born in 1939 in Genoa, Zappettini lives and works in Chiavari, where in 2003 he established the Fondazione Zappettini for contemporary art. He was invited to exhibit at “documenta 6” in Kassel (1977) and exhibited in "Abstraction Analytique", Museum of Modern Art, Paris (1978). His last two personal exhibitions in private galleries were at Mazzoleni Art Gallery in Turin in May 2016), and Lugano’s Primae Noctis last December.
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