Core of an exhibition realized at MAGI in 2007, the large number of works by contemporary artists of this section invites to think that the season of abstraction, which marked the birth of some of the most important avant-garde of the Twentieth century, has never ended and, indeed, continues to feed the most current research in visual art, with often surprising results.
Among the Informal Movement, Optical Art and Minimalism the works here exhibited interpret the strength toward the essence of the sign, the reduction of image and volume until the progressive lack of representation.
The vocation of art to move away from the reproduction of reality, already anticipated by extraordinary experimentation of William Turner (1775-1851) and by Claude Monet’s last works (1940- 1926), continues to find full expression, offering an infinite variety of languages, between analytic line and lyric inspiration.
Expression of an international phenomenon which had a wide diffusion from World War II until today – and in a particularly significant way in the interpretation of the critic – aniconic art shows its vitality, opening up more spaces of debate and reflection.
