In September in Milan an anthological exhibition dedicated to Turi Simeti

From September 8 to December 22, 2020, Milan ’s Dep Art Gallery celebrates the 60-year career of Turi Sim eti with the anthological exhibition Turi Simeti. Works 1960-2020, curated by Demetrio Paparoni.

Twenty significant large-format works by one of the most representative artists of the Italian twentieth century will be exhibited to tell the public about the main moments of Simeti’s artistic research.

As early as the 1960s, the artist conceived of the work as an autonomous object that does not illustrate, narrate or depict, and that is halfway between a painting and a sculpture: in fact, it possesses the constituent elements of the former (canvas, color) and is designed to be hung on the wall, but it has a body and volume that lead it beyond two-dimensionality.
Dating from his early years of research are the collages Composition and 96 White Ovals, from 1961 and 1965, respectively, both in the exhibition.

Another fundamental moment in her art occurs in the late 1960s when, in 1967, geometric form is definitively transformed into projecting volume. Emblematic in this sense is the work A Gray Oval from 1970.

Thereafter, Simeti will remain consistent with his origins, taking the rigor and control of the artistic gesture to the extreme: he elects the oval as the primary element and multiplying sign of his artistic action. The oval is supported by a load-bearing architecture and skin: the canvas is stretched to its maximum possibility, as in Un ovale nero, a large work from 1980, and the more recent 7 ochre ov als and 5 red ovals, on display.

For info: www.depart.it

Hours: Tuesday through Saturday 10:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. Closed Sunday and Monday.
Free admission.

Image: Turi Simeti, 7 ochre ovals (2019; oil on canvas, 150 x 150 cm)

In September in Milan an anthological exhibition dedicated to Turi Simeti

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