Fausto Melotti
FAUSTO MELOTTI Hauser & Wirth at ADAA The Art Show 1 – 6 March 2016 Park Avenue Armory Park Avenue at 67th Street NEW YORK NY 1 Linea dritta, infinito stabile. Linea curva, infinito instabile. Dentro allo sposalizio-contrasto vive l’opera d’arte. A straight, infinite and steady line. A curved, infinite and unsteady line. Within this marriage-contrast exists the work of art. – Fausto Melotti 1 Fausto Melotti pictured with ‘I Sette Savi’ (1960) 2 3 INTRODUCTION ABOUT THE ARTIST Hauser & Wirth is pleased to participate for the first time at ADAA The Art Show, During the early years of his artistic career, Fausto Melotti developed firm with a solo presentation of works by Fausto Melotti (1901 – 1986), the Italian ideas about the relationship of abstract art to architecture, music, science and sculptor, installation artist, and poet admired for his unique contribution to the mathematics. ‘Greek architecture, Piero della Francesca’s paintings, Bach’s development of mid-century European Modernism. music, rationalist architecture – these are all ‘exact’ arts’, he wrote in 1935. In prewar Milan, Melotti was active among the artistic milieu, befriending the Through a selection of works spanning Melotti’s career – from the early circle of Rationalist architects of Gruppo 7 and joining the group of abstract terracotta Teatrini, to his signature, lithe brass sculptures – the booth traces artists who gravitated around Galleria del Milione. Influenced by his education the artist’s relationship with ‘the square’. Melotti studied music, mathematics in engineering and music, Melotti’s first abstract sculptures were geometrical, and engineering, disciplines that exerted clear influence upon his distinctive and echoed the young artist’s academic training in order, rhythm, proportions practice, however the square functioned as more than a geometric concept.
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