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Osvaldo Licini: That a wind of total madness lifts me
22/09/2018

Osvaldo Licini: That a wind of total madness lifts me

The exhibition celebrates 60 years after Osvaldo Licini’s death (1894 - 1958): it was 1958 when the artist, under the promotional aegis of the art critic and close Peggy Guggenheim‘s friend, Giuseppe Marchiori, won the international award for the painting at the XXIX Venice Biennale during which he presented 53 works - performed between 1925 and 1958 - in a personal room set up by Carlo Scarpa. Among the most prominent figures in the art scene of the first half of the twentieth century, after the figurative experience, Licini leaves any residual of realism, to fully dedicate to abstractionism.
With more than 80 works, the exhibition at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection spotlights that type of painting that for Licini was the art of colours and signs, where the latter expressed strength, will, idea and magic.


In the picture: Osvaldo Licini, Castello in aria, 1933-1936. Collection Augusto e Francesca Giovanardi

Curated by Luca Massimo Barbero

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