Lot No. 17


Giulio Turcato *


Giulio Turcato * - Post-War and Contemporary Art I

(Mantua 1912–1995 Rome)
Superficie lunare, 1968, signed Turcato, oil and mixed media on foam applied on wood, diameter 90 cm, original frame and perspex box

Photo certificate:
Archivio Giulio Turcato, Rome, number VCT.16162138810. SOLE,
also inscribed on the reverse of the work

Provenance:
Studio Giulio Turcato, Rome
Galleria Martano, Turin (label on the reverse)
Galleria d’Arte Ravagnan, Venice (stamp on the reverse)
European Private Collection

Exhibited:
Turin, Giulio Turcato, Galleria Martano Due, November 1971, cat. no. 34
Venice, Il colore di Turcato, Circolo Artistico Palazzo delle Prigioni Vecchie, curated by Galleria d’Arte Ravagnan, 1974, cat. p.206, no. 141
Rome, Giulio Turcato, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, November/December 1974,
cat. no. 141, ill. p. 206
Terni, Giulio Turcato-Libertà, Centro Opificio Siri, October 2010/January 2011, cat. p. 60
Florence, Nascita di una Nazione, Palazzo Strozzi, March/July 2018,
cat. p. 72/73, ill. p. 201

“One of Giulio Turcato’s most important cycles of this decade, the Superfici lunari, was inspired by the search for a new space. It was begun in 1964 and presented two years later by the artist at the International Biennale in Venice...
In Superficie lunare, 1968, painted in oil and mixed technique on a surface of foam rubber, the artist is explicitly inspired by the conquest of space, which dominated the imaginations of an entire decade. The work is a vibrant monochrome field, intersected by inserts or bulges: punctuations of spaces which develop the artist’s previous abstract work, which concentrated on colour as a living space and with the potential for psychic evocation, in a new material direction...These were the years of the moon-landing, in which the physical reality of the universe was finally made tangible and available. Turcato translates the amazement of unveiling of the unknown into a sort of future geology... for the author, the use of foam rubber is a function of his research into these unusual shades, as he himself confirms: “I use foam rubber because its rough crust is full of new happenings and marvels...”Superficie lunare evokes constellations, star charts, astral geologies. It extols reality as a space no longer dramatically post-atomic, but positively and happily cosmic, whose physicality is constantly confirmed by objective or material presence (the foam rubber), but also contradicted by the progressive prevalence of a mental dimension, translated by a white composite of extraordinary expressive force.
From the catalogue “Nascita di una nazione”, “Il monocromo come spazio di libertà”, L. M. Barbero and F. Pola

27.11.2018 - 18:00

Realized price: **
EUR 87,500.-
Estimate:
EUR 55,000.- to EUR 65,000.-

Giulio Turcato *


(Mantua 1912–1995 Rome)
Superficie lunare, 1968, signed Turcato, oil and mixed media on foam applied on wood, diameter 90 cm, original frame and perspex box

Photo certificate:
Archivio Giulio Turcato, Rome, number VCT.16162138810. SOLE,
also inscribed on the reverse of the work

Provenance:
Studio Giulio Turcato, Rome
Galleria Martano, Turin (label on the reverse)
Galleria d’Arte Ravagnan, Venice (stamp on the reverse)
European Private Collection

Exhibited:
Turin, Giulio Turcato, Galleria Martano Due, November 1971, cat. no. 34
Venice, Il colore di Turcato, Circolo Artistico Palazzo delle Prigioni Vecchie, curated by Galleria d’Arte Ravagnan, 1974, cat. p.206, no. 141
Rome, Giulio Turcato, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, November/December 1974,
cat. no. 141, ill. p. 206
Terni, Giulio Turcato-Libertà, Centro Opificio Siri, October 2010/January 2011, cat. p. 60
Florence, Nascita di una Nazione, Palazzo Strozzi, March/July 2018,
cat. p. 72/73, ill. p. 201

“One of Giulio Turcato’s most important cycles of this decade, the Superfici lunari, was inspired by the search for a new space. It was begun in 1964 and presented two years later by the artist at the International Biennale in Venice...
In Superficie lunare, 1968, painted in oil and mixed technique on a surface of foam rubber, the artist is explicitly inspired by the conquest of space, which dominated the imaginations of an entire decade. The work is a vibrant monochrome field, intersected by inserts or bulges: punctuations of spaces which develop the artist’s previous abstract work, which concentrated on colour as a living space and with the potential for psychic evocation, in a new material direction...These were the years of the moon-landing, in which the physical reality of the universe was finally made tangible and available. Turcato translates the amazement of unveiling of the unknown into a sort of future geology... for the author, the use of foam rubber is a function of his research into these unusual shades, as he himself confirms: “I use foam rubber because its rough crust is full of new happenings and marvels...”Superficie lunare evokes constellations, star charts, astral geologies. It extols reality as a space no longer dramatically post-atomic, but positively and happily cosmic, whose physicality is constantly confirmed by objective or material presence (the foam rubber), but also contradicted by the progressive prevalence of a mental dimension, translated by a white composite of extraordinary expressive force.
From the catalogue “Nascita di una nazione”, “Il monocromo come spazio di libertà”, L. M. Barbero and F. Pola


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Auction: Post-War and Contemporary Art I
Auction type: Saleroom auction
Date: 27.11.2018 - 18:00
Location: Vienna | Palais Dorotheum
Exhibition: 17.11. - 27.11.2018


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