At Antonio Dalle Nogare Foundation the first Italian retrospective of Charlotte Posenenske, German minimal artist

The first Italian exhibition of Charlotte Posenenske (Wiesbaden, 1930 - Francorte sul Meno, 1985), curated by Vincenzo de Bellis, opens at the Antonio Dalle Nogare Foundation on September 11, 2021 and can be visited until May 28, 2022.

A central figure of the German minimal movement and an artist of international renown, Charlotte Posenenske devoted herself primarily to sculpture and won much recognition in this field in Germany and on the international scene until 1968, when she decided to devote herself to sociology.

From B to E and more, this is the title of the first Italian retrospective, intends to retrace the evolution of the activity of an artist who died prematurely, with a particular focus on a series of works created in little more than ten years.

Already in her early works on paper, shown in the exhibition in a selection of seventeen items, the artist devoted herself to the exploration of abstract space. International recognition is due to the conception and presentaation of six sculpture series, completed in late 1966 and early 1968: Reliefs Series A, B and C, Vierkantrohre Series D and DW, and Drehflügel Series E. Each body of works consists of multiple elements, carefully designed and mass-produced according to the artist’s drawings. The elements vary in shape, size and complexity, but are linked by common geometric shapes and by being industrially made at very low production costs.

“The things I make are variable, as simple as possible, and eternally reproducible”: with these words Charlotte Posenenske defined her thinking in 1968. The modular sculptures, whose components can be combined or moved in various ways to create different volumetric compositions, invite the viewer to both a visual and spatial aesthetic experience.

The retrospective exhibits five of these sculptural series, combined in ways chosen specifically for the environments of the Antonio Dalle Nogare Foundation.

Insisting on the concepts of repetition and industrial fabrication, the artist developed a form of minimalism that addressed the socioeconomic and political concerns of ’68 in order to rethink the status quo of the art market and rejecting established cultural hierarchies.

Through this retrospective, the Antonio Dalle Nogare Foundation intends to open itself to a discussion of the dynamics that govern global economic structures and the contemporary art system in particular.

Image: Setting up of the exhibition Charlotte Posenenske: FROM B TO E AND MORE at the Antonio Dalle Nogare Foundation, 2021. Courtesy of the Estate of Charlotte Posenenske and Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin. Ph. Credit Jürgen Eheim Fotostudio

At Antonio Dalle Nogare Foundation the first Italian retrospective of Charlotte Posenenske, German minimal artist

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