Cementoarmato

Maria Cernuschi Ghiringhelli 1990

Uncini, Giuseppe

1960 - 1960 - XX

759

Unità di misura: cm; Altezza: 61,5; Larghezza: 61,5

Cemento e ferro

Astrattismo in Italia nella raccolta Cernuschi Ghiringhelli - Villa Croce, Genova - 1985<br>Esposizione personale - Galleria L'Attico, Roma - 1961

Uncini's first Cementarmato dates from 1958, when he moved to Rome. In an interview given by Uncini himself in 1968 in relation to this work, the artistic and design line is described - the use of industrial materials (cement and iron rod) is not determined by material interests but by the need to overcome the distinction between surface and support. The artist seeks to go beyond the pictorial surface in order to intervene in space with an absolutely new technique; creating not a new expression, but through self-representing and self-signifying objects - The structure of reinforced concrete is thus assumed by the artist as an already existing reality that contains within itself the principle of form, both flat and three-dimensional, and the opposition between fullness (the concrete) and emptiness (the space designed by the iron rods) in the search for an object that represents itself independently of social reality.