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Where the unmeasurable meets the measurable. Alan Bee, Paolo Iacchetti, Tomas Rajlich, Nanni Valentini: Group show with Alan Bee, Paolo Iacchetti, Tomas Rajlich and Nanni Valentini

Past exhibition
17 January - 22 June 2020
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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Alan Bee, Genesis, 1975, 70x50cm, mixed media on canvas
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Alan Bee, Flying sex, 1991
Alan Bee, Freedom, 1983 Play video
Alan Bee, Infinity, 1985 Play video
Alan Bee, Genesis, 1975 Play video
Alan Bee, Free women, 1985 Play video
Alan Bee, Swarm, 1987 Play video
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Tomas Rajlich, Untitled, 1969
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Tomas Rajlich, Untitled, 1972
Tomas Rajlich, Untitled / Composition, 1976 Play video
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Tomas Rajlich Untitled (triptych), 1986
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Tomas Rajlich Untitled, 1969
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Paolo Iacchetti, Coagulazioni, 2019
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Paolo Iacchetti, Numerazioni alfa, 2019
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Paolo Iacchetti, Numerazioni divergenti, 2017
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Paolo Iacchetti, Numerazioni incomplete, 2019
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Paolo Iacchetti, Numerazioni lineari, 2018
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Paolo Iacchetti, Numerazioni nascoste, 2017
Nanni Valentini, Deriva (Centri), 1982-83 Play video
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Nanni Valentini, Deriva (fontana), 1982-83
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Nanni Valentini, Deriva (Ansa), 1982-83
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Nanni Valentini, Casa, 1981
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Nanni Valentini, Stele, 1979-80
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Nanni Valentini Doppia sfera, 1973-75
  • Alan Bee, Genesis, 1975, 70x50cm, mixed media on canvas

  • Alan Bee, Flying sex, 1991
  • Alan Bee, Freedom, 1983
  • Alan Bee, Infinity, 1985
  • Alan Bee, Genesis, 1975
  • Alan Bee, Free women, 1985
  • Alan Bee, Swarm, 1987
  • Tomas Rajlich, Untitled, 1969
  • Tomas Rajlich, Untitled, 1972
  • Tomas Rajlich, Untitled / Composition, 1976
  • Tomas Rajlich
    Untitled (triptych), 1986
     
  • Tomas Rajlich
    Untitled, 1969
     
  • Paolo Iacchetti, Coagulazioni, 2019
  • Paolo Iacchetti, Numerazioni alfa, 2019
  • Paolo Iacchetti, Numerazioni divergenti, 2017
  • Paolo Iacchetti, Numerazioni incomplete, 2019
  • Paolo Iacchetti, Numerazioni lineari, 2018
  • Paolo Iacchetti, Numerazioni nascoste, 2017
  • Nanni Valentini, Deriva (Centri), 1982-83
  • Nanni Valentini, Deriva (fontana), 1982-83
  • Nanni Valentini, Deriva (Ansa), 1982-83
  • Nanni Valentini, Casa, 1981
  • Nanni Valentini, Stele, 1979-80
  • Nanni Valentini
    Doppia sfera, 1973-75
     

Alan Bee, Genesis, 1975, 70x50cm, mixed media on canvas

Where the unmeasurable meets the measurable. Alan Bee, Paolo Iacchetti, Tomas Rajlich, Nanni Valentini, Group show with Alan Bee, Paolo...

Alan Bee, Paolo Iacchetti, Tomas Rajlich, Nanni Valentini

Where the unmeasurable meets the measurable

 

 

17 January – 22 June 2020

Curated by Flaminio Gualdoni

 

A work, the architectural genius Louis I. Kahn wrote, “must begin with the unmeasurable, go through measurable means […], and in the end must be unmeasurable”. The act of objectivisation, of implementation, is a form of rationalisation, but “what is unmeasurable is the psychic spirit. The psyche is expressed by feeling and also thought and I believe will always be unmeasurable”.

 

The exhibition that opens in ABC-ARTE on 17 January explores this subtle and incisive intuition of Kahn, verifying it in the work of four artists who differ in terms of nationality, generation and cultural context: Alan Bee (1940-2018), Paolo Iacchetti (1953), Tomas Rajlich (1940) and Nanni Valentini (1932-1985). Bound by no superficial affinity, they all operate with perfect awareness of the debate of the avantgardes, above all aware of what they do not want to be.

 

With the curator Flaminio Gualdoni, ABC-ARTE has chosen not to group them in a joint presentation, but to experience the sense of unrepeatable singularity of each of these artists. So WHERE THE UNMEASURABLE MEETS THE MEASURABLEconsists of four parallel one-man shows. The synthetic selection of works of each artist demonstrates the fundamental reasons in which the regularity of the operational process is not an end in itself, but serves to distil its profound expressive reasons.

 

A further novelty is the first presentation in public of the paintings of Alan Bee, the pseudonym of a well-known German industrialist and businessman (Karlsfeld 1940 – Munich 2018) who besides all his official activities was for decades an art collector with a secret and intense passion for painting. In his will he authorised the diffusion of his own works after his death, while maintaining his real identity secret. This enabled him to meet and frequent such prominent artists as Joseph Beuys, Carl Buchheister, Emil Schumacher and Bernard Schulze.

 

The opening will be accompanied by the presentation of a new publication as a companion to the exhibition. Part of the bilingual (Italian and English) series ABC-ARTE edizioni, it contains the critical text by the curator Flaminio Gualdoni, photographs of the exhibition space and reproductions of the works, as well as a rich apparatus of historical documentation. 

 

 

 

Alan Bee, Paolo Iacchetti, Tomas Rajlich, Nanni Valentini

Where the unmeasurable meets the measurable

 

 

17 January 2020 – 22 June 2020

Orario: tuesday-saturday 9.30 – 13.30; 14.30 – 18.30

Sunday-Monday: by appointment

 

ABC-ARTE

Via XX Settembre 11/A Genova

T.010.86.83.884

info@abc-arte.com

www.abc-arte.com

 

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