Lot 6
  • 6

Vincenzo Agnetti

Estimate
200,000 - 250,000 EUR
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Description

  • Vincenzo Agnetti
  • Il vettore
  • bachelite incisa e vernice nitro
  • cm 60x60 ciascuno, 6 elementi
  • Eseguito nel 1975 in 2 esemplari con misure differenti

Provenance

Artra Studio, Milano
Collezione Rimoldi, Como
Collezione privata, Milano

Exhibited

Milano, Studio Cannaviello, Gli eventi precipitano, 1976

Literature

Vincenzo Agnetti: mostra alla Sonnabend, a Parigi, in Domus, n. 550, settembre 1975, illustrato l'altro esemplare

Condition

This work appears to be in generally good overall condition. There are some shallow rubbing areas scattered on the surface of the bachelites, except for the n. 5. More specifically: bachelite n. 1: there are two tiny scratches towards the lower edge. Bachelite n. 2: there are some scratches visible only under raking light upper left and upper right and towards the lower centre. Bachelite n. 3: there is a tiny scratch along the left upper edge. Bachelite n. 4: there are some scattered scratches visible only under raking light. Bachelite n. 5: there are some shallow scratches visible under raking light to the centre of the right margin and to the centre of the lower margin. Bachelite n. 6: there are few tiny scratches visible under raking light towards the centre and upper left and a trace of dirt towards the centre of the left edge. There is a tiny scrape by the lower right corner.
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Catalogue Note

Questo lavoro, diviso in tre sequenze di sei pezzi ognuna, è un tipico esempio di "equivalenza"; la chiave della equivalenza sta nei titoli, che si equivalgono mentre il soggetto del quadro cambia. Considerando che un problema filosofico o fisico, ha la possibilità di essere volgarizzato, cioè reso pubblico, in immagini differenti che riflettono lo stesso discorso, ho pensato di tradurre su sei lavagne il percorso di un vettore, rappresentandolo in diagrammi e superfici. Poi ho recuperato questo discorso a livello di immagini familiari, immagini di oggetti e immagini di persone, dando luogo e tempo a una "storia didattica"; storia di oggetti e storia di persone. La proposizione "gli eventi precipitano" indica appunto l'importanza del tempo sul percorso delle cose e delle persone.

Questi sono i titoli:
1- Il vettore che ci viene incontro, è un riferimento impreciso.
2- Il vettore riferito a uno spazio possibile
3- il vettore che ci viene incontro riduce i riferimenti
4- Il vettore che ci viene incontro si allontana
5- La storia è come un vettore, più ci è vicina e meno sappiamo valutarla.
6- Il vettore che si allontana finisce in un computer


This work, divided into three sequences of sic pieces each, is a typical example of "equivalence". The key to the equivalence lies in the titles, which are equivalent to each other, whilst the subject of the picture changes. Considering that a philosophical or physical problem can be vulgarized, that is, made public, in different images reflecting the same thing, I thought I would translate on to six blackboards the path of a vector, representing it in diagrams and surfaces. Then I recovered this statement in terms of familiar emails, images of objects and images of persons, setting up a time and a place for a "didactic history", a history of objects and a history of persons. The proposition "Events precipitate", infact, indicates the importance of time in the path of things and of persons.

These are the titles:
1- the vector which meets one half way is an imprecise reference
2- the vector referred to a possible space
3- the vector which meets one half way reduces the references
4- the vector which meets one half way goes away
5- history is like a vector, the closer it is to us the less we are able to evaluate it
6- the vector which goes away finishes in a computer

Vincenzo Agnetti, in "Libro (particolare) 1978", pp. 88-89