Città incatenata

Beppe Dellepiane 1994

Dellepiane, Beppe

1983 - 1983 - XX

1543

Unità di misura: cm; Altezza: 230; Larghezza: 240; Profondità: 40

assemblaggio

Metafore, metonimie, trasmutazioni - Villa Croce, Genova - 1997

The artist was born on 12 July 1937 in Bolzaneto. The environment in which he spent his early years was the industrial Genoa between the two wars. He began exhibiting in the second half of the 1950s. In 1997 (‘Metaphors, Metonymies, Transmutations’), he held an exhibition at the Villa Croce Museum of Contemporary Art, to which he had previously donated his large-scale works created between 1980 and 1984. The work on display is part of this donation. Specifically, the reference to the city mentioned in the title refers to the artist's vision as he perceives the change (following the processes of industrial transformation) of the district where he was born and lived. The city becomes the place blocked by chains, and the elements that make up the assemblage, with their dark and often recycled colours, allude to the degradation and air pollution produced by the fumes of the steelworks.