Gastone Novelli

Gastone Novelli (born July 1, 1925 in Vienna , † December 22, 1968 in Milan ) was an Italian painter , graphic artist , ceramist and art lecturer.

Life

Gastone Novelli was born in Vienna on July 1, 1925. He spent his school days in Italy. He fought in the Resistancea during the Second World War , was sentenced to death in October 1943 and liberated on July 3, 1944 after the liberation of Rome. In 1947 and 1949 he stayed in Zurich, where he met Max Bill . Novelli's first graphics were created. From 1950 to 1954 he lived as a lecturer in design and composition in São Paulo . In 1951, 1953, 1964 and 1968 he took part in the Biennale di Venezia . At the beginning of 1955 he settled in Rome, where he met Afro , Corrado Cagli , Enrico Prampolino , Achille Perilli and later Cy Twombly . He traveled to Paris, among others, where he met Man Ray , Tristan Tzara and André Masson , and to Greece in 1962. He recorded his impressions in a drawn travel diary. In 1967 he lived and worked in Venice. In October he received a teaching position from the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milan. He could not finish it because he died in December of complications from a thyroid operation.

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Novelli got to know positions of Concrete Art through Max Bill and initially painted geometrically abstract. As a lecturer and translator, he dealt with the theories of Paul Klee . His conception of signs had a lasting influence on his style. In his artistic work, Novelli assumed points, lines and surfaces, which he concentrated in areas without a central perspective. He condensed objects into simplified signs, which he arranged on the picture ground with texts and inscriptions. He described this approach with the sentence "Painting is drawing with signs". Informal gestural elements can also be found almost throughout his work.

literature

• Gastone Novelli , in the exhibition catalog Edition Abstracta, catalog X / 9 1965, Abstracta-Verlag Johanna Schiessel 1965
• Claude Simon and Brigitte Ferrato-Combe, Novelli ou leproblemème du langage , Les Temps Modernes, Paris 2005
• Gastone Novelli , Exhibition Catalog Milan, Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro , March 9 - May 10, 2006, Italian and English, Ed. Walter Guadagnini, Flaminio Gualdoni, Milan-Geneva (Skirà) 2006
• Gastone Novelli - Pittore di segni, lettere, suoni, colori , exhibition catalog Rome, Auditorium Parco della Musica , March 15 - May 15, 2005, Ed .: Pia Vivarelli, Claudia Terenzi, Milan-Geneva (Skirà) 2005
• “Gastone Novelli - 1925-1968”, exhibition catalog Trento, Palazzo delle Albere 1999, publisher: Pia Vivarelli, Milan-Geneva (Skirà) 1999