Domenico Gnoli (painter)

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Domenico Gnoli (born May 3, 1933 in Rome , Italy , † April 17, 1970 in New York City , USA ) was an Italian painter , graphic artist and draftsman .

life and work

Domenico Gnoli had his artistic training in a private school. After his first drawings and exhibitions in Rome (La Cassapanca 1950) and Brussels (1951), he also worked in the 1950s as a set designer at the Theater d 'Italia in London and Paris , and as an illustrator for various newspapers.

Gnoli moved to the United States in 1955 and lived in New York from 1955 to 1962. In his painting, contrary to the prevailing trends towards abstraction and Informel , he turned to figuration early on. However, his pictures remove the depicted object from the real human world.

Domenico Gnoli painted huge cut-outs - enlarged shirt collars, a button or a shoe. He isolated everyday objects in his paintings and depicted them out of context in a sometimes frightening, mostly puzzling art world. This deserted art reality in his works has echoes of Surrealism and at the same time of Pop Art , but is oversized and unreal Form rather unique.

In 1968 Domenico Gnoli was represented with 5 oil paintings (including the “shirt collar”: “ Tor de cou 15½ ” and the button: “ Bouton ”) at the 4th documenta in Kassel . In the same year his works were exhibited in the Kestner Society in Hanover .

His work is part of the collection of many major museums worldwide, including the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam , the New National Gallery in Berlin , the Museum Ludwig in Cologne , the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven , the Kunsthalle Hamburg , the Von der Heydt Museum in Wuppertal , and the Royal Museums of Fine Arts in Brussels.

Literature and Sources

  • Exhibition catalog for the 1968 solo exhibition at the Kestner Society, Hanover, with introductory notes by Wieland Schmied
  • Exhibition catalog for the IV. Documenta: IV. Documenta. International exhibition ; Catalog: Volume 1: (Painting and Sculpture); Volume 2: (Graphics / Objects); Kassel 1968
  • Kimpel, Harald / Stengel, Karin: documenta IV 1968 International Exhibition - A Photographic Reconstruction (series of publications from the documenta archive); Bremen 2007, ISBN 978-3-86108-524-9
  • Gnoli, 1981: Domenico Gnoli 1933-1970. Paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints (exhibition catalog), Kunsthalle Bremen 1981

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personal data
SURNAME Gnoli, Domenico
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian painter, printmaker and draftsman
DATE OF BIRTH May 3, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Rome , Italy
DATE OF DEATH April 17, 1970
Place of death New York City , USA