Rilievo rosso con asta verticale

Maria Cernuchi Ghiringhelli 1990

Colla, Ettore

1966 - XX

608

Unità di misura: cm; Altezza: 57; Larghezza: 50

lamiera e ferro

Ettore Colla - Roma - 1983<br>Astrattismo in Italia nella raccolta Cernuschi Ghiringhelli - Villa Croce, Genova - 1985

The artist studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Parma. After graduating in 1922, he moved to Paris where he stayed for three years, practising at various ateliers including Bourdelle's. After returning to Italy, he moved to Rome where he began his exhibition activity (we remember his presence at the Venice Biennale in 1930). Also in Rome at the end of the 1940s, he founded the Gruppo Origine with Burri, Capogrossi and Ballocco, considered an anticipation of Informal Art, a research that contrasted with the more aesthetic and formal research of the time. The work in the collection (from 1966) is part of this field of research in which the spatial relationships between elements are declined not so much in reference to geometric abstractionism, but above all to Informalism. The work consists of a rectangular base of scratched metal and 2 vertical elements welded at the ends.