Milan's Bottegantica Gallery pays tribute to the sculptures of Giuliano Vangi

From April 12 to May 12, 2019, Galleria Bottegantica in Milan will dedicate a retrospective to Giuliano Vangi (Barberino di Mugello,1931), entitled Giuliano Vangi. From Pencil to Chisel.

The Tuscan artist, trained in Florence, renewed the concept of sculpture throughout his work, reaching beyond architecture and spatial dimensions. Working with many materials, such as stone, terracotta, resin, ivory, and metal, he developed a personal and original language. During his stay in Brazil between 1959 and 1962 he worked on theabstract, exhibited at the São Paulo Museum, and participated in a traveling exhibition in the United States.

Twenty sculptures and a series of drawings made between 1960 and the early 2000s will be on view in the exhibition, where the central theme is theman of today, a mirror of contemporary society.
Starting with Walking Man (1967), the artist expresses his attention to cultures of the past, as in Beatrice (1997), Woman and Poetry (2002).

Vangi also stands in dialogue with the great sculptors of the 19th and 20th centuries: Medardo Rosso, Adolfo Wildt, Arturo Martini, Marino Marini. Sculptures, such as Ragazzo con le mani in tasca (1986), exhibited at the 1989 Promotrice in Turin and at Castel Sant’Elmo in Naples in 1991, are significant for their depiction of solitary figures caught in meditation and reflection: here the compactness of the material is placed in dialogue with the spirituality of the subject represented.
Another theme addressed is the relationship between man and nature in its most contradictory aspects, highlighting the destructive force of the latter. One example is Katrina (2014), which refers to the hurricane that had devastated the United States in 2005.

The preparatory drawings in the exhibition, made in pencil, charcoal, pastel or mixed media, allow us to notice the transition from the real to the mental: faces and bodies are drawn with particular care and attention to anatomy and somatics.

The exhibition, curated by Enzo Savoia, Stefano Bosi and Valerio Mazzetti Rossi, is part of the Contemporary / Lab project, with which Galleria Bottegantica intends to pay homage to the main artistic personalities of our time.

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Source: press release

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Image: Giuliano Vangi, Studio di figura (1977; mixed media on paper, 48 x 69.5 cm)

Milan's Bottegantica Gallery pays tribute to the sculptures of Giuliano Vangi

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