The Museum of Contemporary Art Villa Croce is dedicating a large retrospective to a major international interpreter of abstract (non-figurative) art, the Czech-born, Dutch naturalised artist Tomas Rajlich, in dialogue with certain key works of Italian masters of abstract art selected by the artist himself (Getulio Alviani, Rodolfo Aricò, Agostino Bonalumi, Enzo Cacciola, Antonio Calderara, Nicola Carrino, Gianni Colombo, Pietro Consagra, Dadamaino, Piero Dorazio, Lucio Fontana, Marco Gastini, Giorgio Griffa, Riccardo Guarneri, Paolo Icaro, Osvaldo Licini, Piero Manzoni, Fausto Melotti, Bruno Munari, Martino Oberto, Claudio Olivieri, Arnaldo Pomodoro, Mauro Reggiani, Antonio Scaccabarozzi, Paolo Scheggi, Turi Simeti, Atanasio Soldati, Giuseppe Uncini, Nanni Valentini, Claudio Verna, Gianfranco Zappettini) : from an introduction to the concretism of the 1930s to the postwar period, from the preconceptual and perceptual explorations of the 1960s to Op Art and the new painting of the 1970s and 1980s, unravelling a novel and original line in Italian abstract art.
The exhibition is curated by Cesare Biasini Selvaggi and Flaminio Gualdoni, accompanied by a catalogue published by Silvana Editoriale with contribution by Martin Dostál. With more than eighty works, it presents an unparalleled panorama of the specific artistic trajectory and vitality expressed by aniconic painting.
The exhibition has been produced by the Genoa Local Authority with the collaboration of ABC-ARTE, contemporary art gallery in Genoa.
