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Details of object number: 50129755
Title:Situazione
Object name:tableau
Created by:Ravagnolo, Ezio (South Tyrol, 1932)
Production date:1978
Description:Abstract structure.
Hist. crit. notes:From the 1970s to the 1990s: postmodern tendencies, metaphorical vocabulary and experimentalism
[…] Consequently, Ravagnolo was able to detach himself from his formal, iconographic legacies and concentrate mainly on abstractionism, with his brushstrokes producing a medial reality to create “new spatial experience”. Even the titles he chose for his various works convey a sense of contemplation: from “Composizioni e Condizioni/Situazioni umane” (Compositions and Conditions/Human Situations) to “Orizzonte artificiale” (Artificial Horizon, 1974) and “L’uncino” (The Hook, 1975). During Ravagnolo’s solo exhibition at the Leonardo Gallery in Bolzano in 1975, art critic Serravalli variously characterised him as an existential painter, a taciturn witness, and a philosopher who paints, concluding that his works are concerned with the psychological garbage that everyone carries with them. Let us not forget that the very dearth of (or perhaps even total abstention from) artistic activity in the post-war period between the 1940’s and the 1960’s can itself be interpreted as a form of critique.
(Francesca Taverna, Polyhedric artistry, in: Art in the Provincial Council of South Tyrol, Bolzano/Bozen 2024, p. 137)
[…] Consequently, Ravagnolo was able to detach himself from his formal, iconographic legacies and concentrate mainly on abstractionism, with his brushstrokes producing a medial reality to create “new spatial experience”. Even the titles he chose for his various works convey a sense of contemplation: from “Composizioni e Condizioni/Situazioni umane” (Compositions and Conditions/Human Situations) to “Orizzonte artificiale” (Artificial Horizon, 1974) and “L’uncino” (The Hook, 1975). During Ravagnolo’s solo exhibition at the Leonardo Gallery in Bolzano in 1975, art critic Serravalli variously characterised him as an existential painter, a taciturn witness, and a philosopher who paints, concluding that his works are concerned with the psychological garbage that everyone carries with them. Let us not forget that the very dearth of (or perhaps even total abstention from) artistic activity in the post-war period between the 1940’s and the 1960’s can itself be interpreted as a form of critique.
(Francesca Taverna, Polyhedric artistry, in: Art in the Provincial Council of South Tyrol, Bolzano/Bozen 2024, p. 137)
Technique:gemalt
Dimensions:
- height: 100 cm
width: 99.5 cm
Physical description:Öl auf Leinwand
Keyword:Abstract