The Colors of Piemonti

A familiar artist to aficionados of the Museum of Geometric and MADI Art, Lorenzo Piemonti will open his own retrospective, “The Colors of Piemonti”, beginning October 26 and closing January 4, 2008. Mr. Piemonti will be at the museum to see his old friends and introduce Dallas to this collection.

Like all artists, Piemonti has gone through many variations to reach his dedication to sculpture in the MADI genre. The artist dabbled in figurative art in his early years. While studying with concrete artists in Switzerland, he designed stylized mannequins for fashion exhibitions for Courèges, Balenciaga, Saint Laurent and Armani. He was born in Italy in 1935 where he still resides. He has captured national and international attention for his three dimensional progressions. His work is said to give visibility to the disorder of the world by showing the startling harmony not of order, but of beauty and its undulations. Sometimes he suggests harmony by using monochromic colors which subdue the energy of the basic disorder of the piece; sometimes he uses parallel lines which add consistency. Piemonti himself says, “I think of my work as a pure expression of spiritual order…as a visualization of thoughts”. Bold, out of the box, dimensional and vividly colored . . . all characteristics of MADI art to which Piemonti became dedicated after Salvador Presta carried MADI to Italy from Argentina in the mid 20th century.

On the international scene, Piemonti has been shown solo and in group exhibitions in France, Switzerland, Serbia, Hungry, Rumania, Spain, Italy and the United States. He’s found in permanent collections in museums throughout the world.

For more information on “The Colors of Piemonti”, contact the museum at 214.855.7802; visit the website, geometricmadimuseum.org.

The Museum of Geometric and MADI Art is free and open to the public Tuesdays through Sundays. Educational programming is financially supported by the City of Dallas Office of Cultural Affairs.