Etching Composition by Luigi Veronesi, 1980s

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Luigi Veronesi (Milan 1908 - Milan 1998) Composition, 1987 Etching measurements: 40 x 39.9 cm; sheet 70.5 x 50 cm Italian painter, photographer, set designer and engraver. At the beginning of his artistic career he attended a course for textile designers and studied photography and its various techniques. At the age of 20, he approached painting by attending the Accademia Carrara in Bergamo. He gradually broke away from the academic mould and moved towards geometric abstractionism, thanks also to a stay in Paris in 1932 where he befriended Fernard Leger (Argentan, 1881 - Gif-sur-Yvette 1955), which enabled him to deepen his knowledge of Russian and Dutch Constructivism. He later joined the Parisian group Astraction - Création, an artistic group that promoted abstractionism in the 1930s with the intention of countering surrealism, and became interested in cinema and theatre, making six experimental films. In 1934, he participated in the collective exhibition of abstract art in Italy together with those artists who signed the 'Manifesto of the First Collective Exhibition of Italian Abstract Art' such as Oreste Bogliardi, Cristoforo De Amicis, Ezio D'Errico, Lucio Fontana, Virginio Ghiringhelli and Osvaldo Licini. During the war, his skills as a draftsman were used to create fake documents in the service of the National Liberation Movement. After the war, he worked as both a graphic designer and an advertiser and became interested in another art form, music. In fact, he tries to transform the mathematical relationships between musical notes into tonal relationships between colours so as to realise a dual reality of the work of art. From 1973 to 1977 he taught composition and chromatology at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts. In this print, the superimposition of shapes and colours lends dynamism to the composition on a blue/celeste background. On the foreground parallel lines intersect, cutting the sheet in various directions, and on these rest, as if to form a sort of bouquet, six circles, different in size and composition, blue, green, white or characterised only by the outline. The space is harmonious and sharp. Excellent impression, vivid colours. Very good state of preservation. Wide margins beyond the strike of the copper. Watermark: Graphia watermarked paper. Bottom left, in pencil, L. Veronesi 87 and on the right numbering 61/100 Bibliography: G. Viazzi, Luigi Veronesi, 1980; Osvaldo Patani, Luigi Veronesi Catalogo Generale dell'Opera Grafica, 1927-1983, Allemandi, 1983.

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