Artists

Carlo Ciussi

Press release

On Tuesday, 25 February 2025, A arte Invernizzi gallery opened the solo show Carlo Ciussi. Una danza di tracce e colori, curated by Lorenzo Madaro, presenting works created between 1983 and 1990. The exhibition confirms the attention paid to an artist who was fundamental for research in the history of Italian art in the second half of the 20th century, to whom A arte Invernizzi has dedicated numerous projects, including solo exhibitions in its own spaces and in museum institutions - such as the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice - and choral exhibitions, as well as some editorial projects.

The focus is on a specific phase of Ciussi’s work (Udine, 1930 - 2012) with around twenty medium and large format canvases and works on paper from the same phase of his pictorial investigation. In these paintings, the artist sets aside the systematic nature of a geometric abstraction and modularity that he has been verifying with untiring commitment since the 1960s and then moves on to more open and nonchalant outcomes, which are precisely those collected in the exhibition, in which sinuous, open forms and signs emerge from the rectangular and oval canvases with a thick grain, which over the years, in the canvases around 1990, intertwine with each other in a dance of traces and colours that can change from time to time.