Word: vedova
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from Cezanne to Soutine, from an early Picasso to the latest Henry Moore, on such a scale that no museum or private collection in the world can match it. An enormous black two-story hall houses a kind of cabinet of Dr. Caligari, the Absurd Berlin Diary of Emilio Vedova, with collapsible hinged parts jagging out in a variety of Gothic shapes. Three Paintings in Space by Ernst Wilhelm Nay are obliquely suspended from the ceiling of an otherwise entirely empty hall...
...Italy's Emilio Vedova, 40, whose paintings, said one critic, "look like blackboards beaten with chalk erasers." Vedova uses white splotches on black backgrounds to create a canvas of garish, swirling effects, which he sweepingly titles Image of Time 1959, Tyranny 1960. ¶ Italy's Pietro Consagra, 39, who uses acetylene torches, electric drills, wrenches and vises to turn out large, dugout slabs of metal that look like negative prints of abstract bas-reliefs. Two almost identical pieces bear the titles Colloquy with Wife and Colloquy without Wife; the other nine Consagras are also called Colloquies. (Those...
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