Art Basel 2018
hall 2.0 booth H10

June 14-17, 2018

For the next edition of Art Basel, the Galleria dello che Scudo will document, as usual, particular aspects of Italian art from the first decades of the 20th century until after World War II, through a selection of personalities chosen from among the best-known Italian painters and sculptors in the international context. The exhibition will be divided into two sections.

The first, dedicated to conceptual and abstract research in Italian art after the Second World War, will feature works by Piero Manzoni (Achrome, 1961, glass wool), canvases by Lucio Fontana, including Concetto spaziale, Attesa, 1964-1965, and a large-format Cellotex by Alberto Burri, placed in dialogue with Leoncillo’s large terracotta Racconto rosso, 1963.

In the other section, works by various artists executed between the late 1950s and early 1980s will document the various facets of abstract research in Italy in both painting and sculpture: canvases by Afro, Carla Accardi, Piero Dorazio and Giuseppe Santomaso will be placed in relation to a large painting by Emilio Vedova. Particularly significant in this section will be the following works: Afro, Figura I, 1953, shown in the artist’s various retrospectives held in public venues, including the major Italian art exhibition of in 2006 at the Estorick Collection London; Carla Accardi, Scissione, 1960, based on chromatic gradations of black and gray; Piero Dorazio, Sospetto di forma, 1958, a large canvas exhibited at the XXIX Venice Biennale in 1958, which belonged to Galerie Springer Berlin; Giuseppe Santomaso, Racconto segreto, 1961, a canvas over 160 cm long from the collection of New Yorker Samuel Irving Newhouse Jr. , owner and founder of important publishing houses such as Condé Nast; Emilio Vedova, De America ’76-7, 1976, belonging to a cycle of paintings that mark the author’s personal reflection on the experiences he gained during his sojourns overseas. This section will also include a large bronze by Marino Marini, Il grido, 1962, in which figurative and abstract compositional cues coexist.

Between the two sections, two iconic personalities of Italian art such as Gino Severini and Giorgio Morandi will be documented, the former, by the painting Danseuse dans la lumière, 1913-1914, an oil on panel with plaster and sequin applications, which incorporates typical Futurist themes such as the dynamism of a moving figure (the dancer) and studies on light, and the latter, by a still life from the 1950s.

The booth layout will also include monochrome white works by Giuseppe Capogrossi and Angelo Savelli.

VIP Days: June 12, 2018
Vernissage: June 13, 2018
Public Days: June 14-17, 2018