At 10 A.M.ART Gallery, a retrospective traces the art of Luigi Veronesi

The 10 A.M. ART Gallery in Milan is hosting from May 9 to June 22, 2019 a retrospective exhibition, curated by Paolo Bolpagni, dedicated to Luigi Veronesi (1908-1998), among the exponents ofItalian and international abstractionism of the 20th century.

Visitors will be able to retrace all phases of his artistic activity. Veronesi ranged from painting to set design, from cinema to the “visualization of music” through a system of forms and colors he developed, from engraving to graphics, from photography to applied arts.

The artist’s real breakthrough came in 1930, when he visited the Venice Biennale for the first time, thus having the opportunity to see the works of Kandinsky, Klee, Feininger and Schlemmer. During his first trip to Paris he met Léger, Vantongerloo and the exponents of the early concretist groups, which had given birth to "Abstraction-Création," which Veronesi joined in 1934. In the same year, his first public exhibition of non-figurative etchings was held at Galleria Il Milione in Milan, to which were juxtaposed those of Josef Albers, a leading exponent of the Bauhaus. László Moholy-Nagy, with whom Veronesi began a long and friendly epistolary relationship that grew out of a meeting in Switzerland in 1935, would also soon become a fundamental point of reference for him. He also linked contacts with exponents of the most advanced trends in European art, such as Max Bill and Jean Tschichold.

Oriented on a personal geometric-constructivist abstractionism, often centered on the musical concept of “variation,” he also began to devote himself to cinema: between 1940 and 1942 he made, coloring films by hand, six “abstract” films, through which he intended to organize a “painting in motion.” On the occasion of the exhibition, some of these rare films, granted by the Fondazione Cineteca Italiana in Milan, will be screened. The importance of Veronesi’s scenographic work will also be highlighted, as he began his involvement in theater in 1933, creating the sketches for Igor Stravinsky’s Le rossignol: the retrospective will feature some of the original puppets for Histoire du soldat, a show designed in 1939 together with Luigi Rognoni, but not staged until 1981.

Among the masterpieces on display are two abstractionist etchings from the 1930s, the 1940 Kinetic Study, the 1941 Composition No. 18, the 1950 Composition, the 1954 painting Incontro alla Composizione A71 from 1971, and the 1991 oil on canvas KF 2; and also examples of the “chromatic visualizations of music” experimented with by Veronesi since 1970. So a retrospective that includes his works made between the 1930s and the 1990s.

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At 10 A.M.ART Gallery, a retrospective traces the art of Luigi Veronesi

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