Sentences with phrase «superficie bianca»
Enrico Castellani (b. 1930) Superficie bianca indistinctly signed, titled and dated «Enrico Castellani Superficie bianca agosto 1967» (on the stretcher) acrylic on shaped canvas 39 3/8 x 47 3/8 in.
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Castellani used nails under a stretched - out canvas to form a sort of dance between the light, angles and the shadows, like in the 2008 diptych Superficie bianca — Dittico.
In an essay from 1960 on these «achromes» and entitled «Libera dimensione», Manzoni gives voice to the Italian formulation of Frank Stella's literalism «What you see is what you see»: «Una superficie bianca che è una superficie bianca e basta».
Optical illusions sometimes result from the patterns of nails, as in the «Quadripolare (Superficie bianca)» of 1971.
Enrico Castellani Quadripolare (Superficie bianca), 1971 © 2014 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / SIAE, Rome.