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3 Italian MADI Artists
A new exhibit, 3 Italian MADI Artists, will open at the MADI Museum on June 18 and runs through September 12. Curated by MADI artist Volf Roitman solely for the Dallas venue, the show will include artists Antonio Perrottelli, Gaetano Pinna and Piergiorgio Zangara. Works by Zangara and Pinna have been exhibited previously at the MADI; this will be the first time a concentration of their works and that of Mr. Perrottelli, will be available for viewing. An opening reception previews the works on Friday June 17, from 7:00 until 8:30 in the evening.
MADI Art presents a geometric metamorphosis occurring in a geometric space through juxtaposition of balance-unbalance, regular-irregular and negative-positive. Breaking the perimeter of these norms represents flexibility to infinite mental spaces, a thing not to be underestimated in a society inclined to close the spaces of the mind.
Antonio
Perrottelli was born in Naples in 1946; he received a diploma in painting
from L'Accademia di Belle Arti in Naples. Perrottelli is represented in
museums and private collections around the world; exhibitions include Scambi
Internazonali Italia-URSS, Milano; Gallery Festo, Rome; Museum of Modern
Art, Napoli; Gallerie am Tunnel, Luxembourg and La Plata Museum of Contemporary
Art, Argentina.
Gaetano Pinna was born in Sassari, Italy in 1939 and received a diploma in architecture from L'Istituto d'Arte. He has become a painter, sculptor, graphic artist and art teacher. During the 1960's, Pinna began creating geometric works by utilizing basic elements such as the square, circle and the straight line; slowly, he matured a system allowing the application of his own rules using color and three-dimensional spaces. Past exhibits of Gaetano Pinna include Galleria Arte Struktura, Milan; Festival euroMADI, Budapest; Studio Toni de Rossi, Verona and the 1994 Venice Biennial.
Piergiorgio Zangara was born in 1943 in Palermo, Italy. where he received
his first artistic instruction from his father. He graduated from the Palermo
State
Institute of Arts. Zangara specializes in cubes and semi circles combined
with Plexiglas; he uses transparency to modify cubic spaces. His work is
on permanent exhibition at the Orion Gallery, Paris; the MADI Museum Brasilero
of Fortaleza, Brazil and Museum voor Constructieve en Concrete Kunst, The
Netherlands and other museums around the world.
The MADI Museum is the only museum in the United States devoted to the MADI art movement. The permanent collection, which consists almost entirely of works by living artists, was assembled by Bill and Dorothy Masterson and is housed on the ground floor of 3109 Carlisle; the building is owned by the law firm of Kilgore and Kilgore.