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LONDON.-Mazzoleni London is presenting the exhibition Agostino Bonalumi. Shaped Metal from 9 March to 29 April 2022, in collaboration with Archivio Bonalumi.
This project inaugurates Mazzoleni’s new gallery space in 15 Old Bond Street as well as a series of shows titled “Focus on”, a format delving into a range of key aspects of the European post-war period.
The title Shaped Metal refers to the metal sheets series that Bonalumi created in the late 1980s using a "pleating" process with an enamel coating.
These wall-mounted works represent the highest point of Bonalumi’s prolific career. Characterised by strictly rectilinear rhythmic structures, they are representative of the artist’s explorations of materials and their expressive potential. In this regard, historian, curator and critic of contemporary art Francesca Pola writes: “This new approach to matter, in which also the luminous dimension given by the transparency was fundamental, was taken up again in an extraordinary cycle that is today much less well known and which is strongly tied to the artist's sculptural investigations: that of the ‘lamiere’ (started in the late 1980s) in which Bonalumi experimented the use of enamelled sheets for wall-hung works that exploited the
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Bonalumi Sculptures
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Bonalumi 1958-2013
The first retrospective of Bonalumi’s sculptural exploration of canvas, colour and material since his death is nothing if not comprehensive, consolidating his place within Italy’s postwar avant garde and the influence he has exerted on subsequent artists and architects
Palazzo Reale, Milan
13 July – 30 September 2018
by VERONICA SIMPSON
Agostino Bonalumi, who was born in Italy in 1935, is an intriguing figure: one of a pivotal group of artists in Italy’s postwar abstract art movement, his profile never quite competed with that of his friends and contemporaries Lucio Fontana, Alberto Burri, Enrico Castellani and Piero Manzoni. Nonetheless, his contributions to the collective experimentation and sculptural explorations around canvas, colour and material, have played their part in influencing subsequent generations of artists and architects, as this major retrospective shows.
Agostino Bonalumi. Installation view, Palazzo Reale, Milan. © ALTO//PIANO – Agostino Osio photography.
Bonalumi studied technical design and mechanics before he taught himself to paint, so it is not so surprising that he felt constrained by the flat planes of the traditional canvas. His enthusiasm for exploding paintings out of their square frame (“extroflexion”) arguably went