Luigi Malice

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Luigi Malice (* 1937 in Naples , Italy ) is an Italian avant-garde artist .

Life

Malice was a student at the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples, where he attended courses from Emilio Notte . of great importance. His painterly beginnings in 1960 reveal a figurative structure that seems to be influenced by the direction Novecento . During this period there was the influence of painters such as Striccoli, Chiancone and Brancaccio. At the beginning of the 1960s, Malice came closer to informal art , with a preference for the “material” aspect, which he copied from Domenico Spinosa. In 1963 Malice moved to Calabria . In the works of these years, as Giorgio Di Genova notes, “constructivist tendencies and lyrical devotion” alternate; sometimes they come into contrast with expressionistic “expulsions” and are resolved by chromatic accumulations, some of which are reminiscent of atmospheric phenomena or air movements, and some of which become matter through implosive concentrations of colors. In all of these solutions the two sides of the informal, the "abstraction lyrique" and the "abstract expressionism", are mixed up .

From 1968, Malice's artistic interests no longer consisted of the contrast between light and color, but of light and shadow. This new form of art, " Topological Art", called "Top Art" for short, lives from the effects that the modulation of the shadow exerts on the surfaces through the use of modeled, multi-layered wooden frames, which are covered with a (mostly) white, waxy sheet are covered plastically. Malice's Top Art is the result of a personal observation of contemporary photokinetic-visual research in Europe. On the one hand, he looked from the creation of the shaped canvases of the minimalists (artists such as Enrico Castellani , Agostino Bonalumi or Simeti), on the other hand, he orientated himself on the original works of the Apulian artist Pino Pascali. In Malice's shaped sheets, the connection between essential shapes (such as circles, sinus lines , etc.) and mostly anthropomorphic silhouettes was evident . This phase lasted for almost 20 years until the mid-1980s. Then Malice returned to painting and began the era of the “New Informal Era ”, which is still relevant today. Until 2007, Luigi Malice was a lecturer at the Academy of Art in Reggio Calabria , from 1984 to 1989 its director.

His most important exhibitions include those at the Palazzo Reale in Naples in December 1992 and the anthological exhibition in Reggio Calabria, “Luigi Malice. Percorsi della Memoria. 1959 - 1999 ” , as well as the two exhibitions in Bayswater (at the“ DOC Art Gallery ”) and in Perth (“ Artage Gallery ”) during his stay in Western Australia last March during an Italian-Australian cultural exchange. In February 2011, Malice's participation in the 54th exhibition of the Venice Biennale was recommended by critic Giorgio di Genova.

Works

  • Genesi ( Paternò , Museum of Modern Art) 1988
  • Nascita (Ponza, Museum of Contemporary Art) 1985
  • Metamorfosi ( Cento , Museum D'arte G. Bargellini) 1979, oilcloth on a molded board
  • Icaro ( Altomonte , City Museum)
  • Essere non essere ( Crotone , Museum of Modern Art)
  • Annunciazione ( Rende , museum for permanent exhibitions from the 19th and 20th centuries), 1981
  • Profili nella scacchiera ( Casoria , Contemporary Art Museum), 1970, oilcloth on a molded board
  • Trasfigurazione ( Gaeta , Civil Gallery of Contemporary Art), 1988

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

  • 1967: Flaccovio Art Gallery , Palermo
  • 1967: Santo Stefano Art Gallery , Venice
  • 1968: Coliseum , New York
  • 1971: La Vernice Art Gallery , Reggio Calabria
  • 1984: Studio Palazzi art gallery , Milan
  • 1987: LAV Art Gallery , Reggio Calabria
  • 1987: L'Ariete Art Center, Naples
  • 1990: Evocazioni Informali , French Institute Le Grenoble, Naples
  • 1990: Evocazioni informali , Florence , Carmignano, Sesto Fiorentino
  • 1992: Paths 1965–1992 , Palazzo Reale Naples
  • 1999: Luigi Malice. Paths of Remembrance , 1959–1999 Art Academy Reggio Calabria
  • 2002: Malice , Arte & Società art gallery, Catanzaro
  • 2003: Top Art exhibition room, VI. Contemporary Art Biennial, Monterosso Calabro, Vibo Valentia
  • 2004: Doc Art Gallery , Bayswater , Australia
  • 2004: Continuità & contamin-azioni / Continuity & contanin-action , Artrage Gallery, Perth , Australia
  • 2004–2005: Luigi & Filippo Malice. Two generations in comparison , Brancaleone , Reggio Calabria
  • 2005: Luigi Malice. Works 1990–2004 , Reggio Calabria

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lucio Barbera (ed.): Luigi Malice. Percorsi della Memoria 1959-1999 . Catalog Edizioni Gangemi, Rome 1999 ( gangemieditore.com ). gangemieditore.com ( Memento of the original from September 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gangemieditore.com
  2. ↑ Luigi Malice - Figurative beginnings - Years 1959–1963. In: luigimalice.net16.net. Retrieved August 18, 2011 .
  3. ^ Giorgio di Genova: Storia dell'Arte Italiana del '900. Generazione anni trenta . tape 5 . Edizioni BORA, Bologna 2000, p. 41, 116-117, 635 (Figs. 190 and 1187).
  4. ^ Attilio Spanò: La Top Art di Luigi Malice alla VI Biennale di Arte Contemporanea di Monterosso Calabro . In: DAIDALOS. Beni Culturali in Calabria . No. 07/08 , 2003, p. 68-71 .
  5. ^ Luigi Malice - neo informale - Since 1986. In: luigimalice.net16.net. Retrieved August 18, 2011 .
  6. ^ Museo delle Generazioni Italiane del '900' G.Bargellini ' . Catalog of permanent exhibitions. tape  3 : Generazione anni trenta. Edizioni Bora, Bologna 2001, p. 15 .
personal data
SURNAME Malice, Luigi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian artist and painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Naples