Rif: 58181

CORPORA, Antonio (Tunisi, 1909 - Roma, 2004)Senza titolo

Roma,  Castelli - Tiratura di 200 esemplari numerati e firmati (Edition of 200 numbered and signed copies)

Original colour lithograph

Signature and numbering in pencil. Dry stamp of the printer. Copy 181/200

Cm 67x48 Ottimo (Fine)

From the post-war period onwards, Antonio Corpora was at the forefront of the battle for the renewal of Italian pictorial language: in 1945, in Rome, he was among the founders of the Neo-Cubist Group, which was above all a movement of energetic opposition to what had been the art of the so-called 'Novecento Italiano'. In 1947 he was part of the 'Fronte nuovo delle arti' and in 1952 he exhibited in Venice in the group of the Otto Pittori Italiani, with Birolli, Morlotti, Santomaso, Turcato, Vedova, Afro and Moreni. The group aimed to find a new dimension that was non-figurative and at the same time different from geometric concretism. Starting from this experience, the tendency towards an evocative and emotional elaboration of colours, spaces and signs remained fundamental in later developments. After an activity always poised between new approaches to the abstract and a return to the figurative, in his last production, the progressive liberation of the image from any kind of organisational structure leaves the field open to colour, mindful of the chromatic experiences of modern painting and witness to his own vision of the world. Corpora took part in the Venice Biennale in 1948, 1950, 1952, 1956 and the Rome Quadriennale in 1955. He exhibited at the most important art exhibitions in Italy and abroad.

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