220 - GIANFRANCO FERRONI (1927–2001) - Untitled, 1980

GIANFRANCO FERRONI (1927–2001) - Untitled, 1980 GIANFRANCO FERRONI (1927–2001) Work Objects and Sculpture - Sixth State, 1980 Black etching Plate: 17x17 cm Sheet: 50x40 cm Signed, dated, and numbered (No. 31/50) in pencil on the front Unframed work Bibliography 1991 Ferroni. Engravings 1957–1991, texts by Giovanni Testori and Marco Goldin, Edizioni Bellinzona – Ceribelli, p. 203, plate 173 Notes Printer: Giancarlo Sardella, Milan Total edition of 50 copies numbered in Arabic numerals + 4 artist’s proofs 'Among the most elaborate etchings created by Gianfranco Ferroni, for the compositional balance achieved, for the subtle suggestions that arise spontaneously from the very arrangement of the objects on the table, in the allusive interplay of the diagonals, or in the deeply unsettling element of that mysterious opening in the drawer; but above all for the painstaking graphic meditation that gradually delineates and captures, layer by layer, the slightest variation in light across the surfaces’ (Excerpt from the caption in the catalog listed in the bibliography)