Piero Dorazio

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Piero Dorazio (born June 29, 1927 in Rome , † May 17, 2005 in Perugia , Umbria ) was an Italian painter.

Life

In 1945 he began to study architecture in Rome. In 1946 he joined the Arte Sociale group in Rome and the first abstract paintings were created. Supported by a scholarship from the French government, he studied from 1947 to 1948 at the “École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts” in Paris.

In 1950 he founded the Age d'Or gallery forum in Rome and Florence to make the avant-garde known in Italy. Since then Dorazio has also been increasingly active as a journalist. A one-year stay in the USA enables Dorazio to meet artists of Abstract Expressionism such as Mark Rothko, Robert Motherwell and Barnett Newman. During this time he also intensively studied Kandinsky's writings, whose theory of the immaterial aspects of painting had a lasting influence on him. After his stay in the USA, he returned to Italy in 1954.

Dorazio was part of the Movimento per l'arte concreta (MAC) group in Milan . In 1959 Piero Dorazio was a participant in documenta 2 and also represented at the next, documenta 3 (1964) in Kassel . As early as 1959, he received a teaching position at the University of Pennsylvania, where he founded the Institute of Contemporary Art in 1963 and was appointed professor in 1968. In 1974 he settled in the abandoned monastery of Todi in Umbria and lived and worked alternately there and on Rhodes .

In 1961 he received the Prix ​​Kandinsky .

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He gained models and ideas for his conception of art from studying European and non-European art history, but especially from Raffaello Santi and Antonio del Pollajuolo , the French impressionists , the Italian futurists and from Vasily Wassiljewitsch Kandinski , Kasimir Severinovich Malewitsch , Piet Mondrian .

His “abstract” non-representational imagery is evident in the use of pure basic colors, which he superimposes, interweaves, and repeats in serial orders in stripes, strokes, lines, fields, and surfaces. Since the late 1950s, the first compositions made up of parallel ribbons of color have been created in his New York studio, which will shape his work from then on. Dorazio then transfers the structure of these works into his painting.

In addition to flat painting, which he also gave a structured surface using aluminum, wood and Plexiglas, he created lithographs and etchings, glass windows, mosaics, ceramics and stage sets.

First and foremost in the United States, Dorazio worked as a lecturer and wrote aesthetic, art-theoretical and art-critical texts.

Dorazio is considered to be one of the most important Italian artists in the second half of the 20th century and a pioneer of abstraction in Italy.

Exhibitions

  • May 19 - June 23, 1985 Paintings - watercolors - graphics - ceramics in the New Town Hall Weiden idOPf.

Fonts

  • La fantasia del arte nella vita moderna (1954–55)

literature

  • Critical lexicon of contemporary art. Edition 29/1995
  • Anette Papenberg-Weber: Piero Dorazio. The artistic formation until 1959 . Schwabe 2002, ISBN 3-7965-1864-8

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personal data
SURNAME Dorazio, Piero
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian painter
DATE OF BIRTH June 29, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Rome , Italy
DATE OF DEATH May 17, 2005
Place of death Perugia , Umbria , Italy