Mino Argento
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Mino Argento is an Italian artist, whose works comprise abstract paintings on canvas and paper.
Until his arrival in 1969 in New York City
Argento was a figurative painter. He left Italy because of his unwillingness to continue painting in a figurative manner, which he felt was expected in Europe. America, it seemed to him, offered other possibilities.
Upon moving to New York, Argento presented one of his first one man exhibitions at the Livingston-Learmonth Gallery in 1974. Argento was the gallery’s opening artist. He was also represented in London, England, by Nigel Greenwood
beginning in 1974. By 1977 he would be represented by Betty Parsons
. Throughout the seventies his work would be presented alongside such other well known artists as Frank Stella
, Richard Pousette-Dart
, Ronald Davis
, Ruth Vollmer
, Jack Youngerman
, Marino Marini (sculptor), Giorgio de Chirico
and Shusaku Arakawa
. Later, in 1983 his work would become part of one of the last (if not the last) shows at the Betty Parsons
Gallery after her death in 1982.
gesso to prepared canvas, sometimes so thinly brushed that it seemed barely to cover the grayish surface of the canvas. He dealt with the ambiguous subleties of the interplay of positive-negative space. Argento enjoyed contrasting the hardness and the aridity of penciled lines with sensuous layers of oil. He would build up the white gesso, at times adding oil paint, until it could almost be mistaken for collage
. He varied the thickness of drawn lines creating an unusual sensitivity for the weight of various forms. Argento meticulously built up his delicate surfaces, so fragile that every gesture was critical, with layer upon transparent layer of gesso, carefully balancing the tone values of the medium against the intensity of his pencil line. Using oil, acrylic and occasionally graphite in conjunction with the gesso, these high-key paintings are not about "being white" but are essentially concerned with the absence color. His background in architecture pervades his paintings through a sense of geometry.
In 1975, Ellen Lubell said in Arts Magazine:
In 1977, Noel Frackman said in Arts Magazine:
In 1977, Michael Florescu said in Arts Magazine:
In 1977, Nina Ffrench-Frazier said in ARTnews.
In 1980, Michael Florescu said in Arts Magazine.
Italian art. Twenty-eight artists are represented in 50 pieces of sculpture
and painting
. Especially rewarding is the display of relatively artists: Mino Argento restrained geometry
in his painting wars with the infinity
of space in the gentle gradations of background color. Calcagno's 1962 painting, White Heat, presents fluid but difficult surfaces which suggest both Clyfford Still
and Franz Kline
. Sculpture
for the most part looked far more slick that painting
in this exhibition, but Gio Pomodoro
enormous bronze
slabs in Contatti: 1970, gave an authentic sense of excitement and tension. This reviewer was disappointed to discover that almost all the avant-garden of the early 20th century such as Boccocci, Giorgio de Chirico
, Marino Marini (sculptor), Giorgio Morandi
and Gustavo Foppiani had been on brief loan from private collections.
, Mino Argento, Juhana Blomstedt, Ronald Davis
, Maxime Defert
, Michel Gueranger
, Patrick Ireland, Nicholas Krushenick
, Barry Le Va
, Finn Mickelborg, Philippe Morisson, Georges Noel and Frank Stella
. To call this a revival of illusionism, is to forget that such a difinition makes sense only when speaking in terms of representation, and not in situations of intensity and of force rather
than of form. The simultaneous development of these studies on both sides of the Atlantic unknown even to the painters involved is the best evidence of their necessity as if the Mondernism of pictoral space was ceasing to be found in reference to flatness
, to become an exploration of its own intensities.
which struck 1976 Friuli earthquake
, a significant one regards a numerous group of American Artists who donated a large collection of works of Paintings, Sculpture
and Graphics
, that is, a patrimony not only economic but ideal and Spiritual
as well. The creation of the "Friuli Art and Monuments
, Stephen Antonakos, Mino Argento, Edward Avedisian
, Lewis Baltz
, Isabel Bishop
, Ronald Bladen, Nell Blaine, Norman Bluhm
, Ernest Briggs
, James Brooks
, Rudolph Burckhardt, Charles Cajori, Rosemarie Castoro, Susan Castoro, Giorgio Cavallon
, Christo, Franco Ciarlo, Suetelle Coman, William N. Copley, Allan D'Arcangelo, robert Dash, Gene Davis
, Elaine de Kooning
, Willem de Kooning
, Mark Di Suvero
, Lois Dodd
, Seymour Drumlevitc h, Edward Dugmore
, Lawrence Fane, William Fares, Louis Finkelstein
, Mary Frank
, Albert J. Friscia
, Paul Georges
, Leon Golub
, Joseph Goto, Philip Grausman
, Nancy Graves
, Cleve Gray
, Stephen Greene
, Philip Guston
, Richard Haas
, Dimitri Hadzi, Grace Hartigan
, Richard Hennessy, Horst P. Horst
, Donald Judd
, James Juszczhy, Ruth Rita Kagan, Wolf Kahn
, Alex Katz
, Lila Katzen, Ellsworth Kelly
, Ed Kerns
, W.Y. Koenigstein, Joyce Kozloff, Lee Krasner
, Ronnie Landfield
, Ibram Lassaw
, Mom Levinson, Sol LeWitt
, Roy Lichtenstein
, Linda Lindeberg, Seymour Lipton
, Robert Mangold
, Sylvia Plimack Mangold
, Brice Marden
, Nicholas Marsicano
, Knox Martin
, Jack Massey, R aoul Middleman, Willard Midgette
, Lew Minter, Gregoire Muller, Alice Neel
, Costantino Nivola
, Doug Ohlson
, John Opper, Phillip Pavia, Beverly Pepper
, Charles O. Perry
, Howardena Pindell
, Murray Reich, Tony Rosenthal, Edwin Ruda, Kikuo Saito, Fred Sandback
, Tommy Schmidt, George Segal
, Joel Shapiro
, Sidney Simon, Joe Stefanelli (painter)
, Saul Steinberg
, Frank Stella
, Harold Stevenson, Marjorie Strider
, Esteban Vicente
, Ruth Vollmer
, Neil Welliver
, Robert White
, William T. Wiley
, Christopher Wilmarth, Jane Wilson, Wing Wilsons, Adja Yunkers
, Kes Zapkus. It is always difficult to introduce a group show: and, in this case, it is a group show, even if the works, donated by over a hundred "American Artist to the Earthquake-struck towns of Friuli", are destined to cohabit in a permanent collection.
, New York City
, Betty Parsons
, New York City
. and Atlantic Richfield Co (Arco
)., Civici musei e gallerie di storia e arte
(in others as well as many private collections)
wooden sculpture. (Among others). Photograph by Lisl Steiner.
Ruth Vollmer
1961-1978 Thinking The Line, Nadja Rottner and Peter Weibel
, editors. p. 220, ISBN 978-3-7757-1786-1
Life and work
Mino Argento was born in Rome, Italy in 1927. He worked in architecture as a young man. His career as an artist began in Italy including a 1968 exhibition at Gallery Astrolobio in Rome presented by Marcello Venturoli the famous Italian writer, poet, and art critic.Until his arrival in 1969 in New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
Argento was a figurative painter. He left Italy because of his unwillingness to continue painting in a figurative manner, which he felt was expected in Europe. America, it seemed to him, offered other possibilities.
Upon moving to New York, Argento presented one of his first one man exhibitions at the Livingston-Learmonth Gallery in 1974. Argento was the gallery’s opening artist. He was also represented in London, England, by Nigel Greenwood
Nigel Greenwood (art dealer)
Nigel Palin Greenwood was an erudite and independent-minded art dealer.-Early career:Nigel Greenwood was educated at Christ Church, Oxford and at the Courtauld Institute . He started his career in the art world at the Axiom Gallery in London...
beginning in 1974. By 1977 he would be represented by Betty Parsons
Betty Parsons
Betty Parsons, born Betty Bierne Pierson, was an American artist and art dealer known for her early promotion of Abstract Expressionism. She was known as "the den mother of Abstract Expressionism"...
. Throughout the seventies his work would be presented alongside such other well known artists as Frank Stella
Frank Stella
Frank Stella is an American painter and printmaker, significant within the art movements of minimalism and post-painterly abstraction.-Biography:...
, Richard Pousette-Dart
Richard Pousette-Dart
Richard Pousette-Dart was an American Abstract Expressionist painter.-Biography:He was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota and grew up in Valhalla, New York. Although Richard never attended art school, his father, Nathaniel J. Pousette-Dart, was a painter and writer on art. He moved to Manhattan in 1937...
, Ronald Davis
Ronald Davis
Ronald Davis , born 1937, is an American painter whose work is associated with Geometric abstraction, Abstract Illusionism, Lyrical Abstraction, Hard-edge painting, Shaped canvas painting, Color field painting, and 3D Computer Graphics...
, Ruth Vollmer
Ruth Vollmer
Ruth Vollmer , was a German artist born in Munich. She moved to New York in 1935 and had her first and only solo exhibition in 1960.-Exhibitions:*1977, Group Exhibition, Betty Parsons Gallery...
, Jack Youngerman
Jack Youngerman
-Biography:Jack Youngerman, was born 1926, St. Louis, MO, moved in Louisville, KY in 1929. He studied art at the University of North Carolina from 1944 to 1946 under a wartime navy training program, and graduated from the University of Missouri in 1947....
, Marino Marini (sculptor), Giorgio de Chirico
Giorgio de Chirico
Giorgio de Chirico was a pre-Surrealist and then Surrealist Italian painter born in Volos, Greece, to a Genovese mother and a Sicilian father. He founded the scuola metafisica art movement...
and Shusaku Arakawa
Shusaku Arakawa
was a Japanese artist and architect. He had a personal and artistic partnership with writer and artist Madeline Gins that spanned more than four decades.-Life:...
. Later, in 1983 his work would become part of one of the last (if not the last) shows at the Betty Parsons
Betty Parsons
Betty Parsons, born Betty Bierne Pierson, was an American artist and art dealer known for her early promotion of Abstract Expressionism. She was known as "the den mother of Abstract Expressionism"...
Gallery after her death in 1982.
Artistic style
In the 1960s Argento worked in oil and canvas collage. Later in the 1970s and 1980s he began to apply an acrylicAcrylic paint
Acrylic paint is fast drying paint containing pigment suspension in acrylic polymer emulsion. Acrylic paints can be diluted with water, but become water-resistant when dry...
gesso to prepared canvas, sometimes so thinly brushed that it seemed barely to cover the grayish surface of the canvas. He dealt with the ambiguous subleties of the interplay of positive-negative space. Argento enjoyed contrasting the hardness and the aridity of penciled lines with sensuous layers of oil. He would build up the white gesso, at times adding oil paint, until it could almost be mistaken for collage
Collage
A collage is a work of formal art, primarily in the visual arts, made from an assemblage of different forms, thus creating a new whole....
. He varied the thickness of drawn lines creating an unusual sensitivity for the weight of various forms. Argento meticulously built up his delicate surfaces, so fragile that every gesture was critical, with layer upon transparent layer of gesso, carefully balancing the tone values of the medium against the intensity of his pencil line. Using oil, acrylic and occasionally graphite in conjunction with the gesso, these high-key paintings are not about "being white" but are essentially concerned with the absence color. His background in architecture pervades his paintings through a sense of geometry.
Rome
In 1968, Marcello Venturoli said:And one that reaches far greater results pictorial ImpressionismImpressionismImpressionism was a 19th-century art movement that originated with a group of Paris-based artists whose independent exhibitions brought them to prominence during the 1870s and 1880s...
Liberty, now going with a realistic, where love and female sovereign, now with a look more amused than ever to the beloved models, but the implications to the environment, rich the decorative details of backgrounds, collages, compartments, which resemble those of Leonardo Cremonini. But while the figure Cremonini and absorbed from the environment and how indiversificata-a conspiracy that do things on people-here in the most bitter but vital Argento, the figure remains sovereign, it is decorated, is complicated in a dressing gown, in drapery, becomes a goddess of rest and relaxation in a situation so composed and lonely, as alluding to the presence of man.
New York
In 1974, John Gruen said:These are geometric abstractions that could be called “White on White” with their delicate, yet boldly differentiated forms and textures. One can see Argento’s mind and hand attempting something different within the geometric genre. At times he succeeds, at others, he merely echoes the deja-vu syndromes of shape within shape and closed-hued tonality. Still, one is in the presence of a genuine artist, one who has a most felicitous affinity for making the most out of self-imposed limitations of form and color. If at the moment elegance overrides depth.
In 1975, Ellen Lubell said in Arts Magazine:
OK Harris GalleryOK Harris GalleryThe OK Harris Gallery is an art gallery located at 383 West Broadway in SoHo, New York City.Previously located at 485 West Broadway, in the early 1970s it hosted exhibits by Alan Vega, some of which were advertised as "Punk Music" predating the later Punk rock by some years.-History:Ivan C...
previously provided a refreshing change of pace. Mino Argento’s four white-on-white paintings were variations on the gridded, rectangle-on-rectangle themes, but were enlivened whit differences in rhythm and conception. One composition included grayed grids and vertical rectangles in several, more opaque whites, clustered centrally. The keen sense of proportion, the sense of angularity abut the rectangles, and the cracked paint within one of them that looked like a natural grid contributed to make this painting a finely tuned, complex example of the genre.
In 1977, Noel Frackman said in Arts Magazine:
No lines or forms are extraneous; the application of the paint itself, the juxtapositions of elements all work towards a tense, euclidean harmony. The varying thickness of drawn lines and an unusual sensitivity for the weight of various forms lift these paintings out of the realm of simple geometric constructions into the area of the theoretical. In a sense, these white paintings are philosophical musings on the nature of geometryGeometryGeometry arose as the field of knowledge dealing with spatial relationships. Geometry was one of the two fields of pre-modern mathematics, the other being the study of numbers ....
as pure idea.
In 1977, Michael Florescu said in Arts Magazine:
Is this his rendering of a far distant race-memory, the way in which, for instance, the pyramids came to be built, where the raw material of the structure evolved into the mechanics by which similar enterprises came about in the future? Or are we, at this point in time, to interpret the physical effect of mistiness the deliberate fragmentation and obscuring of the image (elsewhere a seemingly endless vista of virgin grid) as representing no less that visible breath of a concerned Creator!
In 1977, Nina Ffrench-Frazier said in ARTnews.
Argento deals with the ambiguous subleties of the interplay of positive-negative space. There is more than the mind at first can grasp in these monotone paintings of squares, traingles, grids, and rectangular. Apparently involved with PythagoreanPythagoreanPythagorean means of or pertaining to the ancient Ionian mathematician, philosopher, and music theorist Pythagoras. See:-Philosophy:* Pythagoreanism is a term used for the esoteric and metaphysical beliefs purported to have been held by Pythagoras....
geometryGeometryGeometry arose as the field of knowledge dealing with spatial relationships. Geometry was one of the two fields of pre-modern mathematics, the other being the study of numbers ....
, Argento-much in the same tradition as Filippo BrunelleschiFilippo BrunelleschiFilippo Brunelleschi was one of the foremost architects and engineers of the Italian Renaissance. He is perhaps most famous for inventing linear perspective and designing the dome of the Florence Cathedral, but his accomplishments also included bronze artwork, architecture , mathematics,...
, Bramante and other RenaissanceRenaissanceThe Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Italy in the Late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe. The term is also used more loosely to refer to the historical era, but since the changes of the Renaissance were not...
men-is in reality fascinated by the intensely spiritual beauty of PythagoreanPythagoreanPythagorean means of or pertaining to the ancient Ionian mathematician, philosopher, and music theorist Pythagoras. See:-Philosophy:* Pythagoreanism is a term used for the esoteric and metaphysical beliefs purported to have been held by Pythagoras....
philosophyPhilosophyPhilosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. Philosophy is distinguished from other ways of addressing such problems by its critical, generally systematic approach and its reliance on rational...
, with which he so marvelously infuses all of his paintings.
In 1980, Michael Florescu said in Arts Magazine.
Is his essay “Vicissitudes of the Square,” Harold RosenbergHarold RosenbergHarold Rosenberg was an American writer, educator, philosopher and art critic. He coined the term Action Painting in 1952 for what was later to be known as abstract expressionism. The term was first employed in Rosenberg's essay "American Action Painters" published in the December 1952 issue of...
Noted, “Painting squares is now no different from painting trees or clowns; the question of the feeling they convey becomes all-important,” Argento conveys feeling by means of his play with perspectives, with units of measurement, with directional symbols, with modes of calculation, and with ventors of suggested light, He creates illusions of refraction, causing the spectator to look at his squares. Argento dramatizes distance by the recognition of affirmations and denials within the same picture plane. This particular effect was identified by Theodor Adorno, when he wrote that "distance is not a safety zone, but a field of tension. It is manifested not in relaxing the claim of ideas to truth, but in delicacy and fragility of thinking." This characteristic may be best appreciated if Argento's paintings are considered for what I believe they are: a valid contemporay form of the traditional still life.
Los Angeles
In 1988, Cathy Curtis said in Los Angeles Times.Mino Argento's checkerboard-strewn abstractions are an '80s version of the lightweight sensibility of those School of ParisSchool of ParisSchool of Paris refers to two distinct groups of artists — a group of medieval manuscript illuminators, and a group of non-French artists working in Paris before World War I...
painters who embroidered on the big guys' themes. He specializes in geometric shapes with cloudy edges, expanses of industrial gray touched up with bright-and-airy candy-colored backgrounds. There's a slight bow in the chic direction of architectureArchitectureArchitecture is both the process and product of planning, designing and construction. Architectural works, in the material form of buildings, are often perceived as cultural and political symbols and as works of art...
(mitered-frame shapes, graph-ruled passages and even the suggestion of a facade or two). It all works best when the shapes are crisp, smartly patterned and manageably small. (Los Angeles premiere exhibition 1988, April Sgro-Riddle Gallery.)
Forty Years of Italian Art
Group show of ContemporaryContemporary
Contemporary is a visual arts magazine, published every month. Founded and edited by Keith Spencer in 1992, it was originally called Contemporary Art...
Italian art. Twenty-eight artists are represented in 50 pieces of sculpture
Sculpture
Sculpture is three-dimensional artwork created by shaping or combining hard materials—typically stone such as marble—or metal, glass, or wood. Softer materials can also be used, such as clay, textiles, plastics, polymers and softer metals...
and painting
Painting
Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...
. Especially rewarding is the display of relatively artists: Mino Argento restrained geometry
Geometry
Geometry arose as the field of knowledge dealing with spatial relationships. Geometry was one of the two fields of pre-modern mathematics, the other being the study of numbers ....
in his painting wars with the infinity
Infinity
Infinity is a concept in many fields, most predominantly mathematics and physics, that refers to a quantity without bound or end. People have developed various ideas throughout history about the nature of infinity...
of space in the gentle gradations of background color. Calcagno's 1962 painting, White Heat, presents fluid but difficult surfaces which suggest both Clyfford Still
Clyfford Still
Clyfford Still was an American painter, and one of the leading figures of Abstract Expressionism.-Biography:...
and Franz Kline
Franz Kline
Franz Jozef Kline was an American painter mainly associated with the Abstract Expressionist movement centered around New York in the 1940s and 1950s. He was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, and attended Girard College, an academy in Philadelphia for fatherless boys...
. Sculpture
Sculpture
Sculpture is three-dimensional artwork created by shaping or combining hard materials—typically stone such as marble—or metal, glass, or wood. Softer materials can also be used, such as clay, textiles, plastics, polymers and softer metals...
for the most part looked far more slick that painting
Painting
Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...
in this exhibition, but Gio Pomodoro
Giò Pomodoro
-Awards and honors:* Lifetime Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture from the International Sculpture Center 2002 -References:...
enormous bronze
Bronze
Bronze is a metal alloy consisting primarily of copper, usually with tin as the main additive. It is hard and brittle, and it was particularly significant in antiquity, so much so that the Bronze Age was named after the metal...
slabs in Contatti: 1970, gave an authentic sense of excitement and tension. This reviewer was disappointed to discover that almost all the avant-garden of the early 20th century such as Boccocci, Giorgio de Chirico
Giorgio de Chirico
Giorgio de Chirico was a pre-Surrealist and then Surrealist Italian painter born in Volos, Greece, to a Genovese mother and a Sicilian father. He founded the scuola metafisica art movement...
, Marino Marini (sculptor), Giorgio Morandi
Giorgio Morandi
Giorgio Morandi was an Italian painter and printmaker who specialized in still life. His paintings are noted for their tonal subtlety in depicting apparently simple subjects, which were limited mainly to vases, bottles, bowls, flowers, and landscapes.-Biography:Giorgio Morandi was born in Bologna...
and Gustavo Foppiani had been on brief loan from private collections.
Fourteen Painters
The omission stems from a past failure to relate the work of two groups of artists working on opposite sides of Atlantic without contact or influence upon each other yet both equally free of formulated systems or of constitutes "Schools" And the evidence postulated is to bring together "fourteen painters" each offering different yet complementary spatial concepts. Though limited the range exhibited suffices to evoke a contemporary break both with the geometric language of Minimal Art and with optical art. Space is no longer coherence but coexistence of heterogeneities. A coexistence expressed as clearly in the entire range or Canvasses presented, as in indivual works. Jean Allemand, Shusaku ArakawaShusaku Arakawa
was a Japanese artist and architect. He had a personal and artistic partnership with writer and artist Madeline Gins that spanned more than four decades.-Life:...
, Mino Argento, Juhana Blomstedt, Ronald Davis
Ronald Davis
Ronald Davis , born 1937, is an American painter whose work is associated with Geometric abstraction, Abstract Illusionism, Lyrical Abstraction, Hard-edge painting, Shaped canvas painting, Color field painting, and 3D Computer Graphics...
, Maxime Defert
Maxime Defert
Maxime Defert is an French artist, whose works comprise Geometric composition paintings on canvas and paper.- External links :* *...
, Michel Gueranger
Michel Gueranger
Michel Guéranger was born November 14, 1941 in Houilles Carrières-sur-Seine. After graduating from the 'Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Appliqués et des Métiers d'Art', he devoted himself entirely to his passion for art.-Life and work:...
, Patrick Ireland, Nicholas Krushenick
Nicholas Krushenick
Nicholas Krushenick was one of the forerunners of the pop art movement.Krushenick began showing his work publicly in New York in 1957, at the age of 28...
, Barry Le Va
Barry Le Va
Barry Le Va is an American artist.The sculpture's first formulation was included in Le Va's 2005 retrospective at Philadelphia's Institute of Contemporary Art, but there was nothing shopworn about this work...
, Finn Mickelborg, Philippe Morisson, Georges Noel and Frank Stella
Frank Stella
Frank Stella is an American painter and printmaker, significant within the art movements of minimalism and post-painterly abstraction.-Biography:...
. To call this a revival of illusionism, is to forget that such a difinition makes sense only when speaking in terms of representation, and not in situations of intensity and of force rather
Rather
Rather is a family name. It is also an adverb in the English language.Rather may refer to:* Dan Rather, news presenter* Elizabeth Rather, expert in the computer programming language Forth...
than of form. The simultaneous development of these studies on both sides of the Atlantic unknown even to the painters involved is the best evidence of their necessity as if the Mondernism of pictoral space was ceasing to be found in reference to flatness
Flatness
Flatness may refer to:*Flatness *Flatness *Flatness *Flatness *Flatness , a geometrical tolerance required in certain manufacturing situations*Flatness...
, to become an exploration of its own intensities.
In the Words Adorno: "All thought has its moment of universality anything well thought out will inevitably be thought of elsewhere by someone else".
Friuli Art and Monuments (FRIAM)
Among the many episodes of international solidarity on the morrow of the grievous EarthquakeEarthquake
An earthquake is the result of a sudden release of energy in the Earth's crust that creates seismic waves. The seismicity, seismism or seismic activity of an area refers to the frequency, type and size of earthquakes experienced over a period of time...
which struck 1976 Friuli earthquake
1976 Friuli earthquake
The 1976 Friuli earthquake took place in the Friuli region in northeast Italy on Thursday, May 6, 1976. Measuring 6.4 on the Richter Scale, the quake, centered on the town of Gemona del Friuli, killed 989 people, 2400 injured and left 157,000 homeless. It is known in Italy as Terremoto del Friuli...
, a significant one regards a numerous group of American Artists who donated a large collection of works of Paintings, Sculpture
Sculpture
Sculpture is three-dimensional artwork created by shaping or combining hard materials—typically stone such as marble—or metal, glass, or wood. Softer materials can also be used, such as clay, textiles, plastics, polymers and softer metals...
and Graphics
Graphics
Graphics are visual presentations on some surface, such as a wall, canvas, computer screen, paper, or stone to brand, inform, illustrate, or entertain. Examples are photographs, drawings, Line Art, graphs, diagrams, typography, numbers, symbols, geometric designs, maps, engineering drawings,or...
, that is, a patrimony not only economic but ideal and Spiritual
Spiritual
Spiritual may refer to:*Spirituality, a concern with matters of the spirit*Spiritual , an African American song, usually with a Christian religious text...
as well. The creation of the "Friuli Art and Monuments
Carl Andre
Carl Andre is an American minimalist artist recognized for his ordered linear format and grid format sculptures. His sculptures range from large public artworks to more intimate tile patterns arranged on the floor of an exhibition space Carl Andre (born September 16, 1935) is an American...
, Stephen Antonakos, Mino Argento, Edward Avedisian
Edward Avedisian
Edward Avedisian was an American abstract painter who came into prominence during the 1960s. His work was initially associated with Color field painting and in the late 1960s with Lyrical Abstraction.-Early career:He studied art at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston...
, Lewis Baltz
Lewis Baltz
Lewis Baltz is a visual artist and well known photographer who became an important figure in the New Topographic movement of the late 1970s....
, Isabel Bishop
Isabel Bishop
Isabel Bishop was an American painter and graphic artist, who produced numerous paintings and prints of working women in realistic urban settings...
, Ronald Bladen, Nell Blaine, Norman Bluhm
Norman Bluhm
Norman Bluhm , was an American painter classified as an abstract expressionist, and as an action painter.- Biography :...
, Ernest Briggs
Ernest Briggs
Ernest Briggs was an active participant in the later wave of Abstract Expressionism, the revolution in abstract painting that secured New York City's position as the art capital of the world in the post-World War II period.-Biography:...
, James Brooks
James Brooks
James Brooks may refer to:*James Brooks , Bishop of Gloucester*James Brooks English classical composer*James Brooks , United States Representative from New York*James H...
, Rudolph Burckhardt, Charles Cajori, Rosemarie Castoro, Susan Castoro, Giorgio Cavallon
Giorgio Cavallon
Giorgio Cavallon was a founding member of the American Abstract Artists and a pioneer Abstract Expressionist.-Biography:Giorgio Cavallon was born March 3, 1904 in Sorio, near Venice Italy and immigrated to the USA in 1920...
, Christo, Franco Ciarlo, Suetelle Coman, William N. Copley, Allan D'Arcangelo, robert Dash, Gene Davis
Gene Davis
Gene or Eugene Davis may refer to:*Gene Davis , US painter, from Washington, DC*Gene Davis , born Eugene M. Davis, US actor*Gene Davis , American Olympic wrestler...
, Elaine de Kooning
Elaine de Kooning
Elaine de Kooning was an Abstract Expressionist, Figurative Expressionist painter in the post-World War II era and editorial associate for Art News magazine...
, Willem de Kooning
Willem de Kooning
Willem de Kooning was a Dutch American abstract expressionist artist who was born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands....
, Mark Di Suvero
Mark di Suvero
Marco Polo "Mark" di Suvero is an American abstract expressionist sculptor born Marco Polo Levi in Shanghai, China in 1933 to Italian expatriates. He immigrated to San Francisco, California in 1942 with his family. From 1953 to 1957, he attended the University of California, Berkeley to study...
, Lois Dodd
Lois Dodd
Lois Dodd was born in Montclair, New Jersey in 1927. She was educated at the Cooper Union in New York City from 1945-48. She is an abstract expressionist painter. She was the only woman founder of the Tanager Gallery, which was integral to the Tenth Street-avant-garde scene of the 1950s where...
, Seymour Drumlevitc h, Edward Dugmore
Edward Dugmore
Edward Dugmore was an abstract expressionist painter known for close ties to both the San Francisco and New York art worlds in post-war era following World War II. Since 1950 he had more than two dozen solo exhibitions of his paintings in galleries across the United States...
, Lawrence Fane, William Fares, Louis Finkelstein
Louis Finkelstein
Rabbi Louis Finkelstein was a Talmud scholar, an expert in Jewish law, and a leader of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America and Conservative Judaism.-Brief Biography:...
, Mary Frank
Mary Frank
Mary Frank née Mary Lockspeiser is a visual artist known primarily as a sculptor, painter and printmaker/illustrator.- Biography :...
, Albert J. Friscia
Albert J. Friscia
Albert J. Friscia , was an Italian American sculptor. Initially interested in painting, Friscia studied art at the National Academy of Design in New York in the Black Mountain College with Josef Albers, and in Paris with André Masson, then became Kinetic Artist.-Important works:In the United...
, Paul Georges
Paul Georges
Paul Georges was an American painter. He died at his home at Isigny-sur-Mer, Normandy, France, aged 77.He painted large-scale figurative allegories and satirical self-portraits....
, Leon Golub
Leon Golub
Leon Golub was an American painter. He was born in Chicago, Illinois, where he also studied, receiving his BA at the University of Chicago in 1942, his BFA and MFA at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1949 and 1950, respectively.He was married to and collaborated with the artist Nancy Spero...
, Joseph Goto, Philip Grausman
Philip Grausman
Philip Grausman is an American sculptor who continues to push the limits of the time-honored portrait in art. His early work focused on natural forms representing buds and seeds, and this exploration led him to the underlying structure and form of the human head...
, Nancy Graves
Nancy Graves
Nancy Graves was an American sculptor, painter, printmaker, and sometime-filmmaker known for her focus on natural phenomena like camels or maps of the moon...
, Cleve Gray
Cleve Gray
Cleve Gray was known as an Abstract expressionist painter, who was also associated with Color Field painting and Lyrical Abstraction.-Biography:...
, Stephen Greene
Stephen Greene
Stephen Greene is a Canadian politician and a Conservative member of the Canadian Senate. He was appointed on the advice of Stephen Harper to the Senate on January 2, 2009...
, Philip Guston
Philip Guston
Philip Guston was a notable painter and printmaker in the New York School, which included many of the Abstract expressionists, such as Jackson Pollock and Willem De Kooning...
, Richard Haas
Richard Haas
Richard John Haas is an American muralist who is best known for architectural murals and his use of the Trompe l'oeil style.-Works:...
, Dimitri Hadzi, Grace Hartigan
Grace Hartigan
Grace Hartigan was an American Abstract Expressionist painter of the New York School in the 1950s.-Biography and early career:...
, Richard Hennessy, Horst P. Horst
Horst P. Horst
Horst Paul Albert Bohrmann who chose to be known as Horst P. Horst was a German-American fashion photographer.-Early life:...
, Donald Judd
Donald Judd
Donald Clarence Judd was an American artist associated with minimalism . In his work, Judd sought autonomy and clarity for the constructed object and the space created by it, ultimately achieving a rigorously democratic presentation without compositional hierarchy...
, James Juszczhy, Ruth Rita Kagan, Wolf Kahn
Wolf Kahn
Wolf Kahn is a German-born American painter.Kahn is known for his combination of realism and Color Field, and known to work in pastel and oil paint. He studied under Hans Hofmann, and also graduated from the University of Chicago...
, Alex Katz
Alex Katz
Alex Katz is an American figurative artist associated with the Pop art movement. In particular, he is known for his paintings, sculptures, and prints and is represented by numerous galleries internationally.-Life and work:...
, Lila Katzen, Ellsworth Kelly
Ellsworth Kelly
Ellsworth Kelly is an American painter and sculptor associated with Hard-edge painting, Color Field painting and the Minimalist school. His works demonstrate unassuming techniques emphasizing the simplicity of form found similar to the work of John McLaughlin. Kelly often employs bright colors to...
, Ed Kerns
Ed Kerns
Ed Kerns is an internationally exhibited American artist and academic whose works of painterly and digital imagery have been the subject of or have been included in more than forty solo exhibits and 150 group and collaborative exhibitions worldwide...
, W.Y. Koenigstein, Joyce Kozloff, Lee Krasner
Lee Krasner
Lee Krasner was an influential abstract expressionist painter in the second half of the 20th century. On October 25, 1945, she married artist Jackson Pollock, who was also influential in the Abstract Expressionism movement....
, Ronnie Landfield
Ronnie Landfield
Ronnie Landfield is an American abstract painter. During his early career from the mid-1960s through the 1970s his paintings were associated with Lyrical Abstraction, , and he was represented by the David Whitney Gallery and the André Emmerich Gallery.Landfield is...
, Ibram Lassaw
Ibram Lassaw
Ibram Lassaw is an American sculptor, known for nonobjective construction in brazed metals.-Biography:Lassaw was born in Alexandria, Egypt, of Russian émigré parents, he went to the U.S. in 1921. His family settled in Brooklyn, New York. He became a US citizen in 1928...
, Mom Levinson, Sol LeWitt
Sol LeWitt
Solomon "Sol" LeWitt was an American artist linked to various movements, including Conceptual art and Minimalism....
, Roy Lichtenstein
Roy Lichtenstein
Roy Lichtenstein was a prominent American pop artist. During the 1960s his paintings were exhibited at the Leo Castelli Gallery in New York City and along with Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, James Rosenquist and others he became a leading figure in the new art movement...
, Linda Lindeberg, Seymour Lipton
Seymour Lipton
Seymour Lipton was an American abstract expressionist sculptor. He was a member of the New York School who gained widespread recognition in the 1950s. He initially trained as a dentist but focused on sculpture from 1932. His early choices of medium changed from wood to lead and then to bronze, and...
, Robert Mangold
Robert Mangold
Robert Mangold is an American minimalist artist.- Works :“Robert Mangold’s paintings,” wrote Michael Kimmelman in the New York Times in 1997, “are more complicated to describe than they seem, which is partly what’s good about them: the way they invite intense scrutiny, which, in the nature of good...
, Sylvia Plimack Mangold
Sylvia Plimack Mangold
Sylvia Plimack Mangold is an American artist, painter, printmaker, and pastelist. She is known for her representational depictions of interiors and landscapes....
, Brice Marden
Brice Marden
Brice Marden , is an American artist, generally described as Minimalist, although his work defies specific categorization. He lives in New York and Eagles Mere.Marden is represented by the Matthew Marks Gallery.-Life:...
, Nicholas Marsicano
Nicholas Marsicano
Nicholas Marsicano , American painter and teacher of the New York School, was married to Dancer/Choreagrapher Merle Marsicano...
, Knox Martin
Knox Martin
Knox Martin is an American painter, sculptor and muralist.Born in 1923 in Barranquilla, Colombia, he studied at the Art Students League of New York from 1946 till 1950. He is one of the leading members of New York School - a group of artists and writers. He lives and works in New York City."Art is...
, Jack Massey, R aoul Middleman, Willard Midgette
Willard Midgette
Willard Franklin Midgette was an American painter and printmaker associated with the second generation of Contemporary American Realist painters.Midgette was born in Baltimore, Maryland, the son of Ernst Midgette and Mary Midgette...
, Lew Minter, Gregoire Muller, Alice Neel
Alice Neel
Alice Neel was an American artist known for her oil on canvas portraits of friends, family, lovers, poets, artists and strangers...
, Costantino Nivola
Costantino Nivola
Costantino Nivola was an Italian sculptor. He is the grandfather of actor Alessandro Nivola.- Birth and upbringing :...
, Doug Ohlson
Doug Ohlson
Douglas Dean Ohlson was an American abstract artist who specialized in geometric patterns.Ohlson was born on November 18, 1936, in Cherokee, Iowa and attended Bethel College before serving in the United States Marine Corps...
, John Opper, Phillip Pavia, Beverly Pepper
Beverly Pepper
Beverly Pepper is a pioneering sculptor known for her monumental works,site specific and land art. She remains independent from any particular art movement.- Early Life and Education :...
, Charles O. Perry
Charles O. Perry
Charles Owen Perry was an American sculptor particularly known for his large-scale public sculptures....
, Howardena Pindell
Howardena Pindell
Howardena Pindell, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on April 14, 1943, to Howard and Mildred Douglas, is an American abstract artist. Her work explores texture, color, structures, and the process of making art; it is often political, addressing the issues of racism, feminism, violence, slavery,...
, Murray Reich, Tony Rosenthal, Edwin Ruda, Kikuo Saito, Fred Sandback
Fred Sandback
Fred Sandback was a minimalist conceptual-based sculptor known for his yarn sculptures, drawings, and prints.-Life and work:...
, Tommy Schmidt, George Segal
George Segal
George Segal is an American film, stage and television actor.-Early life:George Segal, Jr. was born in 1934 Great Neck, Long Island, New York, the son of Fannie Blanche and George Segal, Sr. He was educated at George School, a private Quaker preparatory boarding school near Newtown, Bucks County,...
, Joel Shapiro
Joel Shapiro
Joel Shapiro is an American sculptor renowned for his dynamic work composed of simple rectangular shapes. Shapiro is represented by The Pace Gallery in New York. He lives and works in New York City, with a summer house on the shore of Lake Champlain, in Westport, New York...
, Sidney Simon, Joe Stefanelli (painter)
Joe Stefanelli (painter)
Joe Stefanelli also known as Joseph J. Stefanelli belonged to the New York School Abstract Expressionist artists whose influence and artistic innovation by the 1950s had been recognized around the world...
, Saul Steinberg
Saul Steinberg
Saul Steinberg was a Romanian-born American cartoonist and illustrator, best known for his work for The New Yorker.-Biography:...
, Frank Stella
Frank Stella
Frank Stella is an American painter and printmaker, significant within the art movements of minimalism and post-painterly abstraction.-Biography:...
, Harold Stevenson, Marjorie Strider
Marjorie Strider
Marjorie Strider is an American painter, sculptor and performance artist best known for her three-dimensional paintings and site-specific soft sculpture installations.-Biography:...
, Esteban Vicente
Esteban Vicente
Esteban Vicente Pérez , was an American painter born in Turégano, Spain. He was one of the first generation of New York School abstract expressionists.-Early life:...
, Ruth Vollmer
Ruth Vollmer
Ruth Vollmer , was a German artist born in Munich. She moved to New York in 1935 and had her first and only solo exhibition in 1960.-Exhibitions:*1977, Group Exhibition, Betty Parsons Gallery...
, Neil Welliver
Neil Welliver
Neil Welliver was an American-born modern artist, best known for his large-scale landscape paintings inspired by the deep woods near his home in Maine....
, Robert White
Robert White
Robert White may refer to:* Robert White , English draughtsman and portrait engraver* Robert White , Motown session guitarist* Robert J...
, William T. Wiley
William T. Wiley
William T. Wiley is a contemporary American artist. His practice spans a broad range of media including drawing, painting, sculpture, film, performance, and pinball. At least some of Wiley's work has been referred to as Funk art....
, Christopher Wilmarth, Jane Wilson, Wing Wilsons, Adja Yunkers
Adja Yunkers
Adja Yunkers was an American abstract painter and printmaker. He was born in Riga, Governorate of Livonia, Russian Empire in 1900. He studied art in Leningrad, Berlin, Paris, and London. He lived in Paris for 14 years, and then moved to Stockholm in 1939. In Stockholm, he published and edited...
, Kes Zapkus. It is always difficult to introduce a group show: and, in this case, it is a group show, even if the works, donated by over a hundred "American Artist to the Earthquake-struck towns of Friuli", are destined to cohabit in a permanent collection.
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- 1965, Condotti Gallery, Rome, Italy. ("Umanità e Construttivismo di Mino Argento" by Giuseppe Fabbri, Bussola, (February, 1965)
- 1966, Realschule Gallery, VaduzVaduzVaduz is the capital of the principality of Liechtenstein and the seat of the national parliament. The town, located along the Rhine, has about 5,100 inhabitants , most of whom are Roman Catholic. Its cathedral is the seat of a Roman Catholic archbishop....
- 1968, Galleria Astrolabio, RomeRomeRome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...
, Crane & Korchin Gallery, Manhasset, New YorkManhasset, New YorkManhasset is a hamlet and neighborhood in Nassau County, New York, on the North Shore of Long Island. As of the United States 2010 Census, the population was 8,080....
. ("Mino Argento" presentation by Marcello Venturoli. - 1974, October 28, Meet The Artist, Livingston-Learmonth Gallery, New York CityNew York CityNew York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
.' - 1977, Betty Parsons Gallery, New York City
- 1979, Betty Parsons Gallery, New York CityNew York CityNew York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
- 1987, J. P. Natkin Gallery, New York CityNew York CityNew York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
- 1988, April Sgro-Riddle Gallery, Los AngelesLos ÁngelesLos Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...
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- 1965, 1966 Burckardt Gallery, RomeRomeRome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...
- 1966, Porfirius Gallery, RomeRomeRome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...
- 1968, Guglielmi Galleria, San Benedetto del TrontoSan Benedetto del TrontoSan Benedetto del Tronto is a city and comune in Marche, Italy, in the province of Ascoli Piceno. It lies on the Adriatic Sea. San Benedetto del Tronto is an important little town on the Marche coast, an active fishing port and one of the main seaside resorts on the central Adriatic coast.Located...
, Italy - 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970 Galeria Astrolabio, RomeRomeRome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...
- 1975, 1976 Livingstone-Patricia Learmonth Gallery, New York CityNew York CityNew York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
- 1975, Group Exhibition, OK Harris GalleryOK Harris GalleryThe OK Harris Gallery is an art gallery located at 383 West Broadway in SoHo, New York City.Previously located at 485 West Broadway, in the early 1970s it hosted exhibits by Alan Vega, some of which were advertised as "Punk Music" predating the later Punk rock by some years.-History:Ivan C...
Mino Argento and Ron Jackson (among others). - 1977, Dec 20-Dec 31, Group Exhibition, Betty ParsonsBetty ParsonsBetty Parsons, born Betty Bierne Pierson, was an American artist and art dealer known for her early promotion of Abstract Expressionism. She was known as "the den mother of Abstract Expressionism"...
Gallery. Mino Argento, Calvert CoggeshallCalvert Coggeshall-Biography:Calvert Coggeshall, an abstract painter and a designer. His last New York exhibition was sponsored by the Rothko Foundation in 1987 at Artists Space, a nonprofit gallery on West Broadway. The paintings he showed were glowing, monochromatic canvases that echoed the colors of Maine skies,...
, Minoru KawabataMinoru KawabataMinoru Kawabata Japanese artist, whose works comprise Abstract Expressionist, Color field paintings.-Life and work:Kawabata was born in Tokyo in 191. He graduated from Tokyo Academy of Fine Arts in 1934. He studied in Paris and Italy 1937-39. Beginning in 1950 he taught art at the Tam University,...
, Richard TuttleRichard TuttleRichard Dean Tuttle is an American postminimalist artist known for his small, subtle, intimate works. His art makes use of scale and line.- Biography :...
, Ruth VollmerRuth VollmerRuth Vollmer , was a German artist born in Munich. She moved to New York in 1935 and had her first and only solo exhibition in 1960.-Exhibitions:*1977, Group Exhibition, Betty Parsons Gallery...
, Robert Yasuda, Helene AylonHelene AylonHelène Aylon is an American multimedia ecofeminist artist. Her work can be divided into three phases: Process art in the '70s; anti-nuclear art in the '80s; and The G-d Project, a feminist commentary on the Hebrew Bible and other established traditions, in the '90s and 2000s.Aylon was raised in...
and Cleve GrayCleve GrayCleve Gray was known as an Abstract expressionist painter, who was also associated with Color Field painting and Lyrical Abstraction.-Biography:...
(among others). - 1978, Dec 12- Dec 30, Group Exhibition, Betty ParsonsBetty ParsonsBetty Parsons, born Betty Bierne Pierson, was an American artist and art dealer known for her early promotion of Abstract Expressionism. She was known as "the den mother of Abstract Expressionism"...
Gallery. Ruth VollmerRuth VollmerRuth Vollmer , was a German artist born in Munich. She moved to New York in 1935 and had her first and only solo exhibition in 1960.-Exhibitions:*1977, Group Exhibition, Betty Parsons Gallery...
, Mino Argento, Cleve GrayCleve GrayCleve Gray was known as an Abstract expressionist painter, who was also associated with Color Field painting and Lyrical Abstraction.-Biography:...
, Calvert CoggeshallCalvert Coggeshall-Biography:Calvert Coggeshall, an abstract painter and a designer. His last New York exhibition was sponsored by the Rothko Foundation in 1987 at Artists Space, a nonprofit gallery on West Broadway. The paintings he showed were glowing, monochromatic canvases that echoed the colors of Maine skies,...
, Richard TuttleRichard TuttleRichard Dean Tuttle is an American postminimalist artist known for his small, subtle, intimate works. His art makes use of scale and line.- Biography :...
. (among others) - 1978, 2-10 Septembre, Group Exhibition 14, "7 Artistes Americains, 7 Artistes Europeans . Galerie Doree Michel GuerangerMichel GuerangerMichel Guéranger was born November 14, 1941 in Houilles Carrières-sur-Seine. After graduating from the 'Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Appliqués et des Métiers d'Art', he devoted himself entirely to his passion for art.-Life and work:...
et Maire de DeauvilleDeauvilleDeauville is a commune in the Calvados département in the Basse-Normandie region in northwestern France.With its racecourse, harbour, international film festival, marinas, conference centre, villas, Grand Casino and sumptuous hotels, Deauville is regarded as the "queen of the Norman beaches" and...
Anne d'OrnanoAnne d'OrnanoAnne D'Ornano is the current President of the General Council of the French department of Calvados. She has been President of the department since 1991. She was a member of the Union for French Democracy until the UDF dissolved in 2007, and she did not join either of the UDF's claimed successors:...
.. Casino de DeauvilleDeauvilleDeauville is a commune in the Calvados département in the Basse-Normandie region in northwestern France.With its racecourse, harbour, international film festival, marinas, conference centre, villas, Grand Casino and sumptuous hotels, Deauville is regarded as the "queen of the Norman beaches" and...
hall et Galerie Doree, DeauvilleDeauvilleDeauville is a commune in the Calvados département in the Basse-Normandie region in northwestern France.With its racecourse, harbour, international film festival, marinas, conference centre, villas, Grand Casino and sumptuous hotels, Deauville is regarded as the "queen of the Norman beaches" and...
FranceFranceThe French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
. Jean Allemand, Shusaku ArakawaShusaku Arakawawas a Japanese artist and architect. He had a personal and artistic partnership with writer and artist Madeline Gins that spanned more than four decades.-Life:...
, Mino Argento, Juhana Blomstedt, Ronald DavisRonald DavisRonald Davis , born 1937, is an American painter whose work is associated with Geometric abstraction, Abstract Illusionism, Lyrical Abstraction, Hard-edge painting, Shaped canvas painting, Color field painting, and 3D Computer Graphics...
, Maxime DefertMaxime DefertMaxime Defert is an French artist, whose works comprise Geometric composition paintings on canvas and paper.- External links :* *...
, Michel GuerangerMichel GuerangerMichel Guéranger was born November 14, 1941 in Houilles Carrières-sur-Seine. After graduating from the 'Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Appliqués et des Métiers d'Art', he devoted himself entirely to his passion for art.-Life and work:...
, Patrick Ireland was the alter ego of Brian O'Doherty, Nicholas KrushenickNicholas KrushenickNicholas Krushenick was one of the forerunners of the pop art movement.Krushenick began showing his work publicly in New York in 1957, at the age of 28...
, Barry Le VaBarry Le VaBarry Le Va is an American artist.The sculpture's first formulation was included in Le Va's 2005 retrospective at Philadelphia's Institute of Contemporary Art, but there was nothing shopworn about this work...
, Finn Mickelborg, Philippe Morisson, Georges Noel, Frank StellaFrank StellaFrank Stella is an American painter and printmaker, significant within the art movements of minimalism and post-painterly abstraction.-Biography:...
. - 1979-80, Dec 18-Jan 12, Group Exhibition, Betty ParsonsBetty ParsonsBetty Parsons, born Betty Bierne Pierson, was an American artist and art dealer known for her early promotion of Abstract Expressionism. She was known as "the den mother of Abstract Expressionism"...
Gallery. Mino Argento, Fanny Brennan, Richard Francisco, Richard TuttleRichard TuttleRichard Dean Tuttle is an American postminimalist artist known for his small, subtle, intimate works. His art makes use of scale and line.- Biography :...
, Ruth VollmerRuth VollmerRuth Vollmer , was a German artist born in Munich. She moved to New York in 1935 and had her first and only solo exhibition in 1960.-Exhibitions:*1977, Group Exhibition, Betty Parsons Gallery...
and Toko Shinoda (among others). - 1979, Nardin Gallery, New York. (Group show of Contemporary Italian Art). Lawrence CalcagnoLawrence CalcagnoLawrence Calcagno was a San Francisco Bay area abstract expressionist painter. He described his artistic motivation in the following words-Biography:...
, Gio PomodoroGiò Pomodoro-Awards and honors:* Lifetime Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture from the International Sculpture Center 2002 -References:...
, Marcello Boccacci, Giorgio de ChiricoGiorgio de ChiricoGiorgio de Chirico was a pre-Surrealist and then Surrealist Italian painter born in Volos, Greece, to a Genovese mother and a Sicilian father. He founded the scuola metafisica art movement...
, Marino Marini (sculptor), Mino Argento, Giorgio MorandiGiorgio MorandiGiorgio Morandi was an Italian painter and printmaker who specialized in still life. His paintings are noted for their tonal subtlety in depicting apparently simple subjects, which were limited mainly to vases, bottles, bowls, flowers, and landscapes.-Biography:Giorgio Morandi was born in Bologna...
, Gustavo Foppiani. Twenty-eight artists are represented in 50 pieces of sculptureSculptureSculpture is three-dimensional artwork created by shaping or combining hard materials—typically stone such as marble—or metal, glass, or wood. Softer materials can also be used, such as clay, textiles, plastics, polymers and softer metals...
and paintingPaintingPainting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...
) - 1980, (Group Exhibition) "Arte Americana Contemporanea". Civici musei e gallerie di storia e arte. UndineUndineUndine, Undina or Ondine are sometimes interchangeable and may refer to:* Ondine , a water nymph from mythology- In literature and painting :* Undine , a novella by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué...
, ItalyItalyItaly , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and... - 1980, Sneed Gallery, Rockford, IllinoisRockford, IllinoisRockford is a mid-sized city located on both banks of the Rock River in far northern Illinois. Often referred to as "The Forest City", Rockford is the county seat of Winnebago County, Illinois, USA. As reported in the 2010 U.S. census, the city was home to 152,871 people, the third most populated...
- 1980, December 9–12, (group show). Betty ParsonsBetty ParsonsBetty Parsons, born Betty Bierne Pierson, was an American artist and art dealer known for her early promotion of Abstract Expressionism. She was known as "the den mother of Abstract Expressionism"...
Gallery, NY. Mino argento, Mark Lancaster (artist)Mark Lancaster (artist)-Early years:Educated at Holme Valley Grammar School, 1949–52, and Bootham School, York, from 1952 to 55, after which he worked in a family textile business and studied textile technology for six years, painting in his own time, before going to King's College, Newcastle in 1961 to study Fine...
, Cleve GrayCleve GrayCleve Gray was known as an Abstract expressionist painter, who was also associated with Color Field painting and Lyrical Abstraction.-Biography:...
, Richard TuttleRichard TuttleRichard Dean Tuttle is an American postminimalist artist known for his small, subtle, intimate works. His art makes use of scale and line.- Biography :...
. Minoru KawabataMinoru KawabataMinoru Kawabata Japanese artist, whose works comprise Abstract Expressionist, Color field paintings.-Life and work:Kawabata was born in Tokyo in 191. He graduated from Tokyo Academy of Fine Arts in 1934. He studied in Paris and Italy 1937-39. Beginning in 1950 he taught art at the Tam University,...
. (among others). - 1981, June 2–20, Betty ParsonsBetty ParsonsBetty Parsons, born Betty Bierne Pierson, was an American artist and art dealer known for her early promotion of Abstract Expressionism. She was known as "the den mother of Abstract Expressionism"...
Gallery, NY. Lee Hall, Calvert CoggeshallCalvert Coggeshall-Biography:Calvert Coggeshall, an abstract painter and a designer. His last New York exhibition was sponsored by the Rothko Foundation in 1987 at Artists Space, a nonprofit gallery on West Broadway. The paintings he showed were glowing, monochromatic canvases that echoed the colors of Maine skies,...
, Mino Argento. (among others). - 1982 Ericson Gallery, New York CityNew York CityNew York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
- 1983, May 25-June 18, "PAINTING," (Group Show). Betty ParsonsBetty ParsonsBetty Parsons, born Betty Bierne Pierson, was an American artist and art dealer known for her early promotion of Abstract Expressionism. She was known as "the den mother of Abstract Expressionism"...
Gallery, NY. Mino Argento, Jack YoungermanJack Youngerman-Biography:Jack Youngerman, was born 1926, St. Louis, MO, moved in Louisville, KY in 1929. He studied art at the University of North Carolina from 1944 to 1946 under a wartime navy training program, and graduated from the University of Missouri in 1947....
, David Budd, Calvert CoggeshallCalvert Coggeshall-Biography:Calvert Coggeshall, an abstract painter and a designer. His last New York exhibition was sponsored by the Rothko Foundation in 1987 at Artists Space, a nonprofit gallery on West Broadway. The paintings he showed were glowing, monochromatic canvases that echoed the colors of Maine skies,...
, Cleve GrayCleve GrayCleve Gray was known as an Abstract expressionist painter, who was also associated with Color Field painting and Lyrical Abstraction.-Biography:...
, Lee HallLee HallLee Hall may refer to:People:* Lee Hall , US lawyer and animal rights activist* Lee Hall , English playwright and screenwriter* Lee Hall , news anchor for WEEK-TV in Peoria, Illinois...
, Minoru KawabataMinoru KawabataMinoru Kawabata Japanese artist, whose works comprise Abstract Expressionist, Color field paintings.-Life and work:Kawabata was born in Tokyo in 191. He graduated from Tokyo Academy of Fine Arts in 1934. He studied in Paris and Italy 1937-39. Beginning in 1950 he taught art at the Tam University,...
, Richard Pousette-DartRichard Pousette-DartRichard Pousette-Dart was an American Abstract Expressionist painter.-Biography:He was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota and grew up in Valhalla, New York. Although Richard never attended art school, his father, Nathaniel J. Pousette-Dart, was a painter and writer on art. He moved to Manhattan in 1937...
, Leon Polk SmithLeon Polk SmithLeon Polk Smith was an American painter. His geometrically oriented abstract paintings were influenced by Piet Mondrian and his style has been associated with the Hard-edge school, of which he is considered one of the founders....
, Hedda SterneHedda SterneHedda Sterne was an artist best remembered as the only woman in a group of Abstract Expressionists known as "The Irascibles" which consisted of Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Barnett Newman, Mark Rothko, and others...
, Ed Zutrau and Sari Dienes (among others). - 1983, July, "Group 2". Betty Parsons Gallery. Mino Argento, Kenzo OkadaKenzo OkadaKenzo Okada was a Japanese-born American painter.According to Michelle Stuart, “when Okada came to the United States he was already a mature painter, well considered in his native Japan...
, Richard Francisco, Richard TuttleRichard TuttleRichard Dean Tuttle is an American postminimalist artist known for his small, subtle, intimate works. His art makes use of scale and line.- Biography :...
, Fanny Brennan, (among others).
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New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
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Betty Parsons
Betty Parsons, born Betty Bierne Pierson, was an American artist and art dealer known for her early promotion of Abstract Expressionism. She was known as "the den mother of Abstract Expressionism"...
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Arco
-Places:*Arco, a town in Trentino, Italy*Arco, Idaho, in the United States*Arco, Minnesota, a city in the United States*ARCO Arena in Sacramento, California, home of the Sacramento Kings-Companies:...
)., Civici musei e gallerie di storia e arte
(in others as well as many private collections)
Late 1950s and early 1960s
- La Tigre, (The Tiger) Oil e Collage su Tela, 60x 70 cm, 1968.
- Donna col Drappo Giallo, (Woman with Yellow Drape) 1968. Oil e Collage su Tela.
- Bagnanti, (Bathers) 1968. Oil e Collage su Tela.
- Sul Tappeto Giallo, (The Yellow Carpet) 1968. Oil e Collage su Tela.
- Ragazza Sul Letto, (Girl On Bed) 1968. Oil e Collage su Tela.
- Nudo,(Naked) 1968.
- Figura Giacente, (Lying Figure) 1968. Oil e Collage su Tela.
- Donna Accovacciata, (Woman Squatting) 1968. Private Collection
- Beauty Salon, (Beauty Salon) 1968. Oil e Collage su Tela.
- Donna e Macchina, (Woman and Machine) 1968.
- Donna e Frutta, (Woman and Fruit) 1968.
- Natura Morta, (Still life) 1968.
- Pupazza, (Puppet) 1968. Oil e Collage su Tela.
- Melanzane, (Eggplant) 1968.
- Il Foglio Bianco, (The white paper) 1968, Oil e Collage su Tela.
- Scena di Caccia, (Hunting Scenes)1968.
- Toro al Mattatoio, (Toro at Slaughterhouse) 1968.
- La Monta, (The Mount) 1968.
- Piccolo Toro n.1, (Small Toro No.1) 1968.
- Piccolo Toro n.2, (Little Bull No .2) 1968.
- La grande Bestia, (The Great Beast) 1968. Oil e Collage su Tela.
- Paesaggio, (Landscape) 1968. Oil e Collage su Tela.
Late 1960s and early 1970s
- Senza titolo, 1973 (Untitled, 1973) Acrilico su tela, 127x127
- New York, 1973, Oil Acrylic and Gesso, Grids, Square Pencil Lines. White on White. 50" x 50"
- New York, 1973 #2 Oil, acrylic and gesso, three squares, pencil on canvas. White on White. 50" X 50"
- Untitled, 1976, Acrylic on Canvas, 48" X 60"
- "Untitled", 1977, 48" x 59".
- Untitled, 1977, Acrylic on Canvas, 35 1/2"X 50"
- "Untitled", 1977, 48"x 59".
- Untitled or (New York), 1977, Acrylic on Canvas, 25" x 70".
- "Untitled", 1977, Acrylic/Pencil on Canvas 30"x 30"
- "Untitled", 1978, 14"x 13.3/4"
- Untitled', 1978, 1,27 x 1,02 m.
- Labyrinthus II, 1978, 52"x 68" Oil on Acryic on Canvas.
- "Untitled", 1979, 49"x 40", Oil on Acrylic on Canvas.
- Fragments of a Paradox, 1979, Oil and Acrylic on Canvas, 57" x 48".
- Untitled, 1979, Oil and Acrylic on Canvas, 48"x 40".
- Janus Two Headed, 1979.
- Spectrum at 90o, 1979, Oil and Acrylic on Canvas, 49"x 40".
- Construction of Three Alternatives, 1979, Oil and Acrylic on Canvas, 57" x 48".
1980s and afterward
- Untitled, 1986, Oil on canvas, 36" x 60".
- Inquietudine Geometria, 1987, Oil on Canvas, 52" x 47".
Additional Reference
Hall, Lee (1991). Betty Parsons: artist, dealer, collector. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Incorporated. ISBN 0-8109-3712-3 From cover: Betty Parsons at her gallery, 1979. Work by artists she represent. Painting by Mino Argento, Ruth VollmerRuth Vollmer
Ruth Vollmer , was a German artist born in Munich. She moved to New York in 1935 and had her first and only solo exhibition in 1960.-Exhibitions:*1977, Group Exhibition, Betty Parsons Gallery...
wooden sculpture. (Among others). Photograph by Lisl Steiner.
Ruth Vollmer
Ruth Vollmer
Ruth Vollmer , was a German artist born in Munich. She moved to New York in 1935 and had her first and only solo exhibition in 1960.-Exhibitions:*1977, Group Exhibition, Betty Parsons Gallery...
1961-1978 Thinking The Line, Nadja Rottner and Peter Weibel
Peter Weibel
Peter Weibel is an artist, curator and theoretician.Raised in Upper Austria he started to study French and cinematography in Paris...
, editors. p. 220, ISBN 978-3-7757-1786-1
External links
- Smithsonian Archives of America Art: Exhibition Files: Betty Parsons Gallery Records. Group-Exhibition December 12-December 30, 1978-Photographs. Ruth Vollmer, Mino Argento, Cleve Gray, Calvert Coggeshall, Richard Tuttle. (among others).
- Archives of America Art Betty Parsons Gallery: Exhibition Files: Exhibition Schedules, 1977-1983 (Mino Argento, Richard Tuttle, Cleve Gray, Richard Tuttle. Minoru Kawabata. (among others).
- Archives of America Art. Betty Parsons Gallery: General Exhibition Files: Group Exhibition Price Lists, 1980-1983 Mino Argento. (Among other artist).
- Betty Parsons Gallery Guest Books: Exhibition of Mino Argento, Fanny Brennan (Box 20, Folder 31-. Nov 27- Dec 15 1979 ) -1980
- Smithsonian Archives of America Art: Betty Parsons Gallery (Box 28, Folder 32).: Record of Sales/ Mino Argento. (Folder 6) Sep 18, 1980
- Betty Parsons Gallery Log, 1977-1978. ( Mino Argento Sept 27- Oct 15 1977. Price list) (Box 24, Folder 25, N.2, 130, 133, 162)
- The Collections Search Center of Smithsonian Institution: Mino Argento, 1927- Folder
- Smithsonian Archives of America Art Records of Betty Parsons Gallery Collection of painting by Mino Argento from 1976, 1977 and 1978. (Box 28, Folder 63 N.2)
- Smithsonian Archives of America Art: Sales and Inventory Records: Sales and Purchases. Sales Invoices by Mino Argento (1978, 1979, 1980. Atlantic Richfield Co (Arco).
- Smithsonian Archives of America Art: Exhibition Files: Guest Book, 1979-1980 (Mino Argento).
- Smithsonian Archives of America Art: Exhibition Files. Exhibition, Mino Argento, 1977-1983. (among others)
- Smithsonian Archives of America Art: General Exhibition Files. Lists of Gallery Artists, 1947-1983. Mino Argento. (among others)
- Smithsonian Archives of America Art: Exhibition Files: Parsons Galley. General Exhibition Files. Lists of Artists Represented, circa 1947-1983. (Mino Argento)
- Smithsonian Archives of America Art: Exhibition Files: Group Exhibitions. Painting (1983), 1983. Mino Argento, Jack Youngerman, David Budd, Calvert Coggshall, Cleve Gray, Lee Hall, Minoru Kawabata, Richard Pousette-Dart, Leon Polk Smith, Hedda Sterne, Ed Zutrau and Sari Dienes (among others)
- Smithsonian Archives of America Art: Exhibition Files: Betty Parsons Gallery. Group Exhibitions. Group Exhibition (1978), Photographs, 1978. Ruth Vollmer, Mino Argento, Cleve Gray, Calvert Caggeshall. (among others)
- Smithsonian Archives of America Art: Betty Parsons Gallery and Warehouse Inventory, Collection. Mino Argento's Paintings from 1979.
- Getty Union List of Artist Names (Research at the Getty)
- Betty Parsons Gallery records, Mino Argento. (1977-1983
- Mino Argento, Art Appraisal, Artist Paintings
- Museum of Modern Art Library, Mino Argento file (Los Angeles, Media Release, 1987
- Henry Allen Moe Papers. Livingstone-Learmonth Gallery. Letter to Henry Allen Moe. Exhibition in 1974 (Mino Argento)
- Mino Argento : Roma, 24 maggio-15 giugno 1968 presentazione di Marcello Venturoli
- Development of the Brand Name: Mino Argento And Lydia Banch, 1970
- Yale University Library. Mino Argento Artist file
- DC Public Library
- John Gruen A prominent music, dance and art critic
- Los Angeles Times. January 22, 1988, "Mino Argento. He specializes in geometric shapes with cloudy edges".
- Photograph (1979) Betty Parsons in her Gallery in New York with works by artists whom she represents. to the left of Parsons is Ruth Vollmer wooden sculpture, behind her; two pieces by Stephen Porter. On the wall is a Painting by Mino Argento. Risa's Brightly painting construction is to the right, and Michael Malpass metal sculpture is on the table.