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Nino Longobardi
Arte Povera Italian Modernist Composition Drawing Painting Sea Horse with Nude

1983

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Nino Longobardi (b. 1953): Untitled, 1983 Mixed media on paper. 19 x 14 in. (image), 26 x 21 in. (frame). Provenance: Cowles Gallery Born in Naples in 1953, he is one of the leading figures of Italian painting in the last two decades. Nino Longobardi did not attend schools or academies of art, rather he trained on-the-job: in art galleries, with artists such as Carlo Alfano, Lucio Amelio, Filiberto Menna and Achille Bonito Oliva. In 1969, Longobardi met the great Neapolitan gallerist Lucio Amelio and they began a human and artistic partnership which lasted for 25 years (until 1994, the year of his death). It was the 1980s that would bring international success for Nino Longobardi. His research focused on the human figure, which he summarised in a few strokes of the brush, pencil and charcoal. In 1982 he particpated in ‘Italian Art Now: an American Perspective’, at the Guggenheim in New York, and in the ‘Trans Avant-garde at the Aurelian Walls’ in Rome. Exhibitions followed at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston and at the Miro Foundation in Barcelona ('83), at the Nationalgalerie in Berlin ('86), at the Grand Palais in Paris ('87) and at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Copenhagen ('88). In the 1990s, Longobardi always looked more closely at the body of the painting andthe recurring themes related to the representation of the body and death. He implemented a radical stripping of the human physicality and this was clear from the solo exhibitions that have been dedicated to him at the Palazzo Reale in Milan (1998) at the Castel Nuovo of Naples (1999), at the Galleria Civica di Modena (2000) and at the National Archaeological Museum in Naples (2001). He has replaced the exuberance that had characterised most of his works from the previous decade, the smooth forms, rigour and balance to achieve an unprecedented form of “minimalism”. Free of any academic conditioning, Nino Longobardi (Naples, 1953) has nurtured his self-taught training mainly through the frequentation of artists, critics and gallery owners, including Carlo Alfano and Joseph Beuys . In particular, the meeting, in 1968, with Lucio Amelio opens a human and professional association that will continue until the disappearance of the gallerist in 1994. After having exhibited in 1978 at the studio of Gianni Pisani , the artist develops a pictorial and figurative research. , in which the human figure becomes the prevailing form, constructed with a strongly expressive sign given in pencil and charcoal. Arte Povera's successor. Sicilian critic Bonito Oliva noted that a bunch of younger artists who had begun in acceptable forms— Conceptualism, Performance, etc. — had moved on to something more questionable: painting. Bonito Oliva's nominees included Mimmo Paladino, Francesco Clemente, Sandro Chia, Nino Longobardi ans Enzo Cucchi
  • Creator:
    Nino Longobardi (1953, Italian)
  • Creation Year:
    1983
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 26 in (66.04 cm)Width: 21 in (53.34 cm)
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  • Gallery Location:
    Surfside, FL
  • Reference Number:
    Seller: 30941stDibs: LU38212192882
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