From Boetti to Balkenhol: Highlights from Modern & Contemporary Art Online

From Boetti to Balkenhol: Highlights from Modern & Contemporary Art Online

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  Getulio Alviani, Superficie a testura vibratile, 1960.
  Estimate €15,000–20,000.

  Superfice a testura variabile is the most iconic work by Getulio Alviani, where the polished aluminium reflects the light in different hues according to the angle at which they are viewed.
  
  

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  Stephan Balkenhol, Senza titolo.
  Estimate €22,000–28,000.

  Senza Titolo is an astonishing hand-carved, wooden sculpture standing on a tall pedestal depicting the anonymous figure of a man.
  
  “In my vision my sculptures become a question, a mirror. And it is the viewer who fills it with meaning.” - Stephan Balkenhol
  
  

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  Fausto Melotti, Riposo, 1975.
  Estimate €40,000–60,000.

  Melotti’s art  is constantly moving and resonant of life, capable of opening a gate to another imaginary.
  
  “In a fine drawing the line, like a soul, throbs of indecision, certainties, desired deceptions.” - Fausto Melotti
  
  

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  Cesare Tacchi

  Cesare Tacchi, Come è liscia la tua pelle, 1965.
  Estimate €40,000–60,000.

  Come è liscia la tua pelle is an iconic work by the great Roman Pop artist Cesare Tacchi.
  
  “Friends, characters, lovers depicted in a three-dimensional domestic environment, modify the surface of the canvas through its padding transforming it into a painting-object.  A lively story created by a “prop man of a genius.” - Vittorio Rubiu
  
  

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  Lucio Del Pezzo, Tavola sinottica 2, 1964.
  Estimate €15,000–20,000.

  Del Pezzo’s dynamic collage features vibrant targets, muted smoking pipes and a map of sahara; a curious and confusing element to the viewer, typical of the Pop.
  
  

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  Alighiero Boetti, I mille fiumi, 1971-1977.
  Estimate €15,000–20,000.

  I mille fiumi, the title usually given to this book, is a classification of the thousand longest rivers in the world. Jean Cristophe Amman has described Boetti’s classification as “[…] an ordered structure with the purpose of organising an incomprehensible disorder[…]”.
  
  

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  Piero Dorazio, Cheval, 1984.
  Estimate €10,000–15,000.

  A powerful and colourful painting by Dorazio, the present work offers both geometrical precision and enigmatic abstraction, replete with a multi-coloured and vibrant colour palette and unitary composition.
  
  

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