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赫尔曼·尼奇，当代艺术I-

Hermann Nitsch * - Zeitgenössische Kunst I-

(Vienna 1938–2022 Mistelbach, Lower Austria)
Splatter painting with chemise and impasto, signed, dated hermann nitsch 1995 on the reverse, oil on burlap, stretched over wooden frame along the right and left edge, fixed to wooden frame along the upper and lower front, 200 x 300 cm

Compare:
Hermann Nitsch. Das Gesamtkunstwerk des Orgien Mysterien Theaters, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2015, pp. 606–607

Exhibited and illustrated in the catalogue:
Ekilibrio Foundation Collection, Galleria Sirio Arte, Padua, 10 October – 7 November 2020, pp. 168-169

Photo of this work signed hermann nitsch on the reverse available.

Provenance:
Aurelio Stefanini, Studio d’arte, Firenze (label on the reverse)
Private Collection, Italy

„… der in den exzess ekstatisch abgestiegene akteur befleckt und beschüttet… die bildfläche. oft noch spontaner, als es nur auf der bildfläche gelingt, trägt sich die intensität auf dem hemd zu. es wird automatisch befleckt, besudelt, beschmutzt, betappt, beschmiert, beschüttet, bespritzt… es ist, als ob der unsere abgründe eröffnende maler beim malvorgang in die nähe des blutschwitzens, des austrinkens des leidenskelches, der geisselung, der kreuzigung, der zerreissung des dionysos, der blendung des ödipus gerät. sein priesterkleid, sein opferhemd ist geprägt vom feuchten stempel der entäusserung… des hemd wird als höchster schmuck und trophäe auf ein bild gehängt, um dessen farbgefüge zu bereichern. es gibt bilder, die brauchen kein hemd, andere verlangen danach…“
Hermann Nitsch – aus der oben angeführten Literatur

“... the actor, ecstatically descended into the excess, stains and pours things onto … the surface of the image. often it’s even more spontaneous than just hitting the surface of the image, striking his shirt in its intensity, too. it’s automatically stained, sullied, dirtied, touched, smeared; it automatically has things poured onto it, sprayed onto it... it’s as if the painter, opening up our deepest depths, is almost sweating blood when he paints, almost drinking from the chalice of grief, flagellation, crucifixion, the dismemberment of dionysus, the blinding of oedipus. his priestly robes, his victim’s shirt is marked by the moistened stamp of renunciation. the shirt is hung on an image, enriching the texture of its colours, as if it were the most precious piece of jewellery, a trophy. there are some images that don’t need a shirt, but others demand it…”
Hermann Nitsch – from the literature cited above

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皮耶罗·多拉齐奥-

Piero Dorazio * - Zeitgenössische Kunst I-

(Rome 1927–2005 Perugia)
Untitled [Contro il rassegnarsi], 1967, Signed, dated, dedicated and inscribed on the reverse, oil on canvas, 100 x 100, framed

This work is registered in the Archivio Piero Dorazio, Milan and is accompanied by a photo certificate of authenticity

Provenance:
V. Pirozzi Collection, Rome
Sale Farsetti, Prato, 27 May 2000, lot 303
Anfiteatro Arte, Milan
European Private Collection

Exhibited:
Milan, Galleria Anfiteatro Arte, 1999, exh. cat. p. 47 no. 15 with ill.
Genoa, Dorazio, Marco Canepa Arte Contemporanea, 2006, exh. cat. with ill.
Padua, Piero Dorazio, Anfiteatro Arte, 1 February – 18 March 2007, exh. cat. p. 74 and 75 with ill. (label on the reverse)


Literature:
M. Volpi Orandini, J. Lassaigne, G. Crisafi, Dorazio Catalogo ragionato delle opere, Alfieri Editore, 1977, no. 8 (in the addenda at the end of the catalogue)

The subject of the painting always drives from the previous painting, hence there is no reason for inspiration. One tries again, keeps on trying to do what he has already done…
Piero Dorazio

Of all the great first and second generation 美国 painters I have known since 1953 (the third generation is not yet discernable), Kenneth Noland is a truly singular case.

He is from North Carolina and Washington, i.e. the provinces, rather than the artistic milieu of New York.

[...]In the 1950s and 1960s I never understood whether some artistic circles in the Metropolis or certain isolated artists like Kenneth Noland and Morris Louis, Georgia O\'Keeffe in New Mexico or Andrew Wyeth in Pennsylvania were more provincial. Although isolated, Louis and Noland were already the most modern of modern 美国 painters in the early 1960s. They were a surprising revelation when discovered and presented by the critic Clement Greenberg at the 法国 and Co. Gallery in New York. Their exhibitions in that gallery between \'59 and \'60 remain by far the most exciting of the decade.

Kenneth Noland\'s painting has nothing to do, therefore, with all the clichés of 美国 painting disseminated here by European critics who have framed all expressions into schools or categories or groups (Action Painting, New Dada, Abstract expressionism, Pop Art, Minimal Art etc.) letting what were actually the most creative values and personalities slip through their fingers. [...]

Ken Noland established himself, from the late 1960s and 1970s, among those few artists defined as \'Colour field painters\' or \'Post Painterly Abstraction\' not as a group but rather as a trend: Helen Frankenhaler, Morris Louis, Jules Olitsky, Friedel Dzubas, Larry Poons. There was a convergence of interests among these painters for colour as an element that defines large spaces and long periods of time for the observer, who is induced to meditate because he is immersed in the rhythm of the lines and chromatic masses of a truly abstract painting, devoid of any allusion or reference to the real, the metaphysical or the subjective temperament. Painting that refers on the one hand to the decorative character of early Matisse, and on the other to the secular spirit of Constructivism. Among those painters, Noland was always the one who, with tenacity and clarity of purpose, was best able to sublimate \'pure visibility\' into a highly lyrical personal poetics. His nature as a colourist and his technique inspired his constant formal research into surface-colour and material-colour relationships. [...]

In these works chromatic fantasy and refined sensitivity, arranged in a precise structural order, bring the brushstrokes and pictorial matter to life in decisive and delicate spaces and lights and rhythms, expressing a constant reflection on the inevitable characteristics of reality. Constancy and appearance, the negative and the positive, fullness and emptiness; our gaze is entertained and delighted by this repertoire of perception, emotion and mind.

(Piero Dorazio, Il singolare caso di Kenenth Noland, in “Rigando dritto. Piero Dorazio Scritti 1945-2004, pp. 425-427)