Conrad Marca-Relli: The New York Years 1945 - 1967

Galleria Open Art

Tel: +39 0574 538003Fax: +39 0574 537808Opening hours: daily 4.30 pm – 8 pmSaturday 10.30 am– 1 pm / 4 pm – 8 pm Sundays and public holidays closedwww.openart.it In its exhibition policy, Galleria Open Art deliberately alternates major figures of twentieth-century art with younger ones, seeking continuity and consistency with the past, present and future in order to establish a specific identity in the Italian art world. There are two main approaches in our exhibition programmes: one that may be described as 'gestural' and the other that could be called 'constructive'. The former comprises such artists as Toti Scialoja, Jiri Kolar and Conrad Marca-Relli to whom the gallery has devoted retrospective exhibitions that have also tended to confirm the relevance of their painting, message and intellectual legacy. Specific attention is given to the developments of the gestural approach — for example, with Gérard Schneider and Paul Jenkins — where this animated current of abstraction is investigated in an emotionally characterized vein with refined use of colour. Parallel to this, there is another area of interest and analysis with which Galleria Open Art is concerned: that of classical Tuscan abstraction. This includes such artists as Vinicio Berti, Silvano Bozzolini, Alvaro Monnini, Gualtiero Nativi and Mario Nuti, in whose works structural and geometric rigour is combined with a remarkably delicate use of colour. The vitality of this movement is illustrated by such artists as Walter Fusi (Galleria Open Art has taken on the task of compiling the general catalogue of this artist's works), with his Neo-Constructive images, which are structured with the use of perspective. The younger artists in this current include, for example, Bruno Querci, who, for over twenty years, has been consistently producing abstract works based on the alternation of blacks and whites, with which he seeks to express the nature of light in an image, and Roberto Floreani, whose position with regard to the work of art is based on a circular development of the concept of life in which the pictorial structure, the true distinguishing feature, originates from the elaboration of its physical substance, which, with its depth and transparency, is enriched with unexpected touches of colour that give energy and vitality to the work.

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