Exhibitions

ARTURO BONFANTI - Works 1961 - 1972

The first solo exhibition in the UK of Italian modern master Arturo Bonfanti (1905 -1987). The exhibition features paintings, reliefs and sculpture from 1961-'72.
Frequent visits to Paris after the Second World War brought many influential friendships among who included Alberto Magnelli, Hans Arp and Gerard Schneider and in the UK with Victor Pasmore and Ben Nicholson. This international awareness had a notable influence on his style and from 1950 onwards Bonfanti dedicated himself to the concrete manifesto, “[the] purpose of concrete art is to represent abstract thoughts in reality, in such a way that the senses perceive them.” [Max Bill]. Bonfanti rejected the object and the figure entirely in favour of pure forms, colour and line. However his works stray away from the stark rationality of some concrete artists. There is something poetic and subtle in his use of colour and soft line, each work is unmistakably his, yet each has a strong individual character. The term ‘Poetic Geometry’ has been used in reference to his work; it seems to fit well.

Austin / Desmond Fine Art

08/06/2012 to 27/07/2012

Open Mon-Fri 10.30am - 5.30pm Sat. (shows only) 11am - 2.30pm

Pied Bull Yard
68/69 Great Russell Street
London
WC1B 3BN