UMBERTO MALATESTA MALATESTA UMBERTO
Fabrica di Roma (Viterbo) 1954

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UMBERTO MALATESTA

MALATESTA UMBERTO Fabrica di Roma (Viterbo) 1954 CHROMATIC ESSENCES 2024 ACRYLICS ON CANVAS 80.00x60.00x3.00 Certificate of authenticity ABSTRACT/INFORMAL WORK BASED ON THE IDEA OF REPRESENTATION OF VISUAL AND OLFACTORY SENSATIONS DERIVED FROM THE OBSERVATION OF NATURE, ESPECIALLY FLORAL VEGETATION, TYPICAL OF THE SPRING PERIOD.

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JO DELAHAUT (Vottem, 1911 - Schaerbeek, 1992). "Carrés monochromes", 1986. Acrylic on canvas. Signed, dated at the bottom. Titled, signed and dated on the back. Measurements: 91 x 72 cm. The Belgian painter Jo Delahaut approached in the forties the geometric abstraction with a radicalism unknown at that time in his artistic environment. The work shown here belongs to his period of maturity, when the artist extreme formal and chromatic purism, which can be compared with the American works of the "hard edge" and "minimalism". But, at the same time, he picks up Mondrian's legacy. His geometric abstraction was a means of awakening the mechanisms of intellectual activity, a metalanguage addressed to the mind. Nourishing the ancestral dialectic relationship between form and color, he used plane geometry in his work because he considered it "the most representative of man". He stresses this idea when he writes: "it brings clarity to representation; it is legible, intuitively understandable even to those who are ignorant of the theory". Jo Delahaut is one of the leading figures of geometric abstraction in Belgium. Trained at the Academy of Fine Arts in Liege, he was a student of Auguste Mambour (1928-1934). He received a doctorate in Art History from the University of Liège and began painting expressionist canvases in 1940. Influenced by the style of the painter Auguste Herbin, he constructed static geometric forms in which, initially, the color of the surfaces played the main role. He was a member of the Salon des Réalités Nouvelles in Paris in 1946, and of the Jeune Peinture Belge in Brussels in 1947, alongside Mig Quinet (1906-2001), Louis Van Lint (1909-1986), Gaston Bertrand (1910-1994), Marc Mendelson (1915-2013) and Anne Bonnet (1908-1960). He was a founding member of the Belgian group Art Abstrait in 1952, and in 1954 co-authored the Manifeste Spatialiste with Pol Bury (1922), among others. Works: panels for the University Hospital Center of Liège (silkscreen on vitrified enameled steel panels, 1978-1985), collection of the Musée en plein air du Sart Tilman (University of Liège). "Esplanade" (1987), in the Musée en plein air du Sart-Tilman, University of Liège (work restored in 2011). Decoration of the Montgomery station of the Brussels subway. Symphonie n°2, 1986 (Université libre de Bruxelles - Archives, patrimoine, réserve précieuse).

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LUIS FEITO (Madrid, 1929-2021). "Composition. Lithography. Exemplary 42/99. Signed and justified in pencil. Measurements: 76 x 57 cm; 93 x 73 cm (frame). Luís Feito, born and formed in Madrid, was one of the founding members of the group El Paso. In 1954 he held his first individual exhibition, with non-figurative works, at the Buchholz gallery in Madrid. From that moment on Feito exhibited regularly in the most important cities of the world, such as Paris, Milan, New York, Helsinki, Tokyo and Rome. Appointed professor at the San Fernando School of Fine Arts in 1954, two years later he left teaching and went to Paris on a scholarship to study the current avant-garde movements. During this period he was influenced by automatism and matter painting. In 1962 he became a founding member of the El Paso group, with which he had lost contact during his years in Paris. His first works are inscribed within figurative painting, to then go through a phase in which he experiments with cubism, and finally fully enter into abstraction. At the beginning he only used black, ochre and white colors, but when he discovered the potential of light, he began to use more vivid colors and smooth planes. He evolved to use red as a counterpoint in his compositions (since 1962) and, in general, more intense colors. In his abstract phase, which includes the 1970s, Feito shows a clear tendency towards simplification, with the circle predominating in his compositions as a geometric form. Possibly, the influence of Japanese art can be seen in his preference for large bands of black. Most of his works are untitled, so they are usually recognized by a number assigned to them. Among his awards is his appointment as Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters of France in 1985. In 1998 he received the Gold Medal of Fine Arts in Madrid, and was appointed Full Member of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando. In 2000 he was awarded the Prize of the Spanish Association of Art Critics at the Estampa Salon, in 2002 the AECA Grand Prize for the best international artist at ARCO, in 2003 the prize for the most relevant artist at the Osaka Art Fair (Japan), in 2004 the Prize for the Culture of Plastic Arts of the Community of Madrid, in 2005 the Francisco Tomás Prieto Prize of the Fábrica Nacional de Moneda y Timbre, and in 2008 the Jorge Alió Foundation Prize and the Grand Prize for Spanish Contemporary Art CESMAI. Luis Feito is represented in the most important museums around the world.

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