La forma scompare. Oggetto, teatralità e barocco nella scultura astratta dei primi anni settanta a Milano

Name: La forma scompare. Oggetto, teatralità e barocco nella scultura astratta dei primi anni settanta a Milano
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ARTE LOMBARDA

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ARTE LOMBARDA - 2024 - 3

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La forma scompare. Oggetto, teatralità e barocco nella scultura astratta dei primi anni settanta a Milano

The form disappears. Object, theatricality and baroque in abstract sculpture of the early 1970s

Autore

Kevin McManus

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Vita e Pensiero

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03-2025

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10.26350/666112_000161

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0004-3443 (stampa) | 2785-1117 (digitale)

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The article analyzes a few examples of abstract sculpture in Milan in the early 1970s, in which the choice of typically industrial materials (such as plexiglas, glass, stainless steel, etc.) constitutes both a response to similar instances in international art, and a challenge to the typical “presence” of traditional sculpture: the sculptural form is dissolved in the surrounding space, turning the artwork into a device for the perception of its environment, instead of focusing on the centrality of the piece. While these lines of inquiry (the cases of Amalia Del Ponte, Nanda Vigo, and Giancarlo Marchese will be examined) are fully integrated in the ongoing process of crisis and redefinition of sculpture as an artistic medium, they also address the question of the “synthesis of the arts” and the opening towards the field of design – a vastly debated issue in the Milan cultural context of the time: the answer given by these works foregrounds a few recurrent categories in international art criticism, such as the “theatrical” and the “baroque”, adopting them in very individual terms.

keywords

Milan, 1970s; abstract sculpture; baroque and abstract art; design; reflective and transparent materials; Amalia Del Ponte; Nanda Vigo; Giancarlo Marchese