Transavant-garde
Transavantgarde , also Italian Transavanguardia (beyond the avantgarde ) , also defined as Arte Cifra in the later phase , describes a style of postmodernism that emerged mainly from the Italian Arte Povera in the mid-1970s .
etymology
The term "Transavanguardia" was coined in 1979 by the Roman art critic Achille Bonito Oliva for a group of Italian painters. The pioneer was the Greek artist Jannis Kounellis . The main representatives of the Transavanguardia include Sandro Chia , Francesco Clemente , Enzo Cucchi , Fernando Leal Audirac , Nicola de Maria , Carlo Maria Mariani and Mimmo Paladino . Because of the symbolic encryption ( encryption ) and alienation of the visual language, the art historian named Wolfgang Max Faust also called this group of artists Arte Cifra.
Stylistic characteristics
The transavant-garde was characterized by a subjective eclecticism , in which the artists again turned to a classic visual language such as panel painting. In the subject and figuration, there was a preference for mythological legendary figures of antiquity (for example Medusas , Minotaurs or Cyclops ) and heroic scenarios in expressive colors. The artists used in their reception - especially Sandro Chia in the sculptural area - a partly ironic- kitschy and puzzling-fragmentary iconography ; they cited historical sources and archaic artifacts and resorted to the classical period in order to end an excursus on art history by emphasizing the subsequent cultural tradition of the Romance West . Achille Bonito Oliva explained: "The images of the transavant-garde represent a puzzle and solution at the same time. The transavant-garde allows art to move in all directions, including the past."
As spontaneous, subjective-emotional opposite direction to the static, "objective" -rational claim of Minimal Art and Concept Art , the Transavantgarde can be with the movements of the American New Image Painting in Germany with the "fierce" painting of the New Wild and in France with compare the figuration libre .
literature
- Achille Bonito Oliva, Dwight Gast (transl.), Gwen Jones (transl.): The Italian Transavantgarde. Giancarlo Politi, Milan 1992, ISBN 88-7816-038-5 (English).
- Ida Gianelli: Transavanguardia. Catalog, Castello di Rivoli, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Skira, Milan 2002, ISBN 88-8491-460-4 (English / Italian).
Web links
- www.kunstwissen.de - Junge Wilde and Transavantguardia
- www.artemotore - La transavanguardia (Italian)
Individual references and sources
- ↑ a b c d Karin Thomas: Until today. Style history of the fine arts in the 20th century. , DuMont Buchverlag , Cologne 1986, pp. 358f, ISBN 3-7701-1939-8
