Pietro Consagra | Original graphics, lithographs, etchings, unique ARTWORS, drawings and paintings
"To express the dramatic rhythm of today's life with plastic elements that should be the formal synthesis of man's actions in contact with the gears of this society, where will, strength, optimism, simplicity, clarity are necessary."
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BIOGRAPHY Pietro Consagra (Mazara del Vallo, October 6, 1920 – Milan, July 16, 2005) was an Italian sculptor and writer, one of the most prestigious exponents of international abstractionism. Having completed his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts of Palermo, in 1944 he moved to Rome, where he adhered to abstractionism by joining the "Gruppo Forma 1" (1947), which claimed "the freedom to be both Marxist and formalist," that is, abstractionists, and frequented the Osteria Fratelli Menghi, a well-known meeting place for painters, directors, screenwriters, writers, and poets between the forties and seventies. In Rome, he worked in the studios of Mazzacurati and Guttuso, where he met Piero Dorazio, Ugo Attardi, Carla Accardi, Antonio Sanfilippo, Achille Perilli, Mino Guerrini, and Turcato. It was precisely with these artists that Consagra prepared in March 1947 the manifesto of the abstractionist group "Gruppo Forma 1," in which the lesson of abstractionism was theorized, learned thanks to a Parisian trip organized by the communist youth. Continue reading. |
