black & white: The reason and the passion

21 February - 29 June 2013

With Black & White. Reason and Passion, a group exhibition that will open on February 21st in which Lorenzelli Arte will present an interesting exploration of the peculiar, expressive capacity of black and white by offering a selection of masters that tried to tackle this precision, investigated this rigor on one hand with rational languages coming from abstract art from the avant-garde history and on the other hand, artists starting from a different viewpoint, that searched for the lyric and naturalistic aspect in this same rigor. 


In a kind of excursus that from a pure, frozen line arrives to shape that penetrates the canvas with delicacy, emotion and harmony. The exposition, curated by Matteo Lorenzelli, analyses the potential of the “uncolored” in the languages of art and its rational and passionate expressions. In the works thus precise and edgy lines that make the canvas vibrate or yet, whites and blacks that unite with elegance in order to create depth and intrigue the eye in a game without ending. 

Twenty-four artists will be distributed in the two halls of the gallery with the following distinction: 

Reason: the various variations in the abstract geometric search, from the introductive constructivists until the searches of the visual perception with Pavel Mansurov, Arturo Bonfanti, Jean Gorin, Günter Fruhtrunk, Giuliano Barbanti, Franco Grignani, Jon Groom, Marcello Morandini, Carlo Nangeroni, Luc Peire; 


Passion: from symbolic searches of geometric abstract with naturalist virtues to more recent variations of post conceptualism of recovery to the painting with Victor Pasmore, Bruno Pulga, André Marfaing, Lee Ufan, Giuseppe Maraniello, Arcangelo, Paolo Icaro, Luca Caccioni, Luca Serra, Leonardo Genovese, Franco Massanova, Ronnie Cutrone, Tullio Pericoli.