Glenda Cinquegrana Art Consulting is proud to present
Analytical Abstraction, Concrete and Contemporary
Enzo Cacciola, Marco Casentini, Vincenzo Cecchini, Paolo Iacchetti, Paolo Masi, Luca Lombardi
From August the 8th to 22nd, 2024
“We speak of concrete and not abstract painting because nothing is more concrete, more real than a line, a colour, a surface.”
Theo van Doesburg, 1925
Glenda Cinquegrana Art Consulting is pleased to an OVR published in Artsy dedicated to the theme of abstraction, through an excursus between three types of abstraction: one originating from analytical painting, another one springing from the avant-garde abstraction, and an ultimate which has a strictly contemporary matrix. In this exquisitely virtual exhibition, the gallery presents a nucleus of works by Enzo Cacciola, Marco Casentini, Vincenzo Cecchini, Paolo Iacchetti, Luca Lombardi and Paolo Masi.
Abstraction departing from an analytical matrix produces works that conceptually explore “the making of painting” seen as process, a practice or a linguistic tool related to the painting and the pictorial medium. The inner mechanism of the painting process is investigated by Enzo Cacciola, who works on concrete as it was a colour tool; Vincenzo Cecchini, who starts from an investigation of the relationship between painting and photography to arrive at a pictorial lyricism that flows into the mystery of the unknowable; and Paolo Masi, an artist who, working on recycled materials, constructs an ever-changing painting. On the opposite, Paolo Iacchetti‘s painting, which takes its cues from analytical painting and research on the pictorial space, recently focuses on molecular-like relationships between signs that proliferate organically on three-dimensional painting.
Opposing any lyrical inspiration, abstract painting of concrete origin is based on constructive elements such as geometry and color. Inspired by Mondrian’s historical abstraction alongside the issue of urban architecture, Marco Casentini‘s painting chooses Plexiglas materials and pure color as tools for constructing an abstraction inquiring on surface and depth.
Luca Lombardi‘s contemporary abstraction focuses on the motif of sliding the finger across the transparency of the screen, namely the “swipe”. Between digitality and evanescence of color, his painting seems like a sorted-out compromise between the two parts: on one side the composition of forms with overlapping fields and the vanishing color into the evanescence, on another side a reality that is lost in the light of the screen.
