Enzo Cacciola - Conceptions, processes and contexts in painting (1973-2016) Thu 20 October 2016 - Fri 02 December 2016

Within Progettoarte-elm Gallery’s program, on Thursday October 20th 2016, 6.30 pm, in via Fusetti 14 in Milan, Enzo Cacciola’s second personal exhibition is scheduled to be held, after the first one held in 2010, always at the Gallery. Enzo Cacciola is a key player of the so-called “Analytical Painting” that has imposed itself on a domestic and worldwide scale since the mid Seventies. Enzo Cacciola‘s work is an active and original evidence of the “Analytical Painting”. Over the last few years, many collective “Analytical Painting” exhibitions were held, whose aim was to take stock of a linguistic mode that is quite differentiated inside. Cacciola’s work can be actually be met for the first time in two meaningful episodes, at least: in 1974 in the “Zero Degree” exhibition, curated by Giorgio Cortenova, at Galleria La Bertesca in Genoa (where Cacciola already had a personal exhibition in 1971) and in the “Analytische Malerei” exhibition, curated by Klaus Honnef and Catherine Millet, at Bertesca in Duesseldorf in 1975. From those experiences up to now, Cacciol’as work has been constantly been considered an influential and sensitive part of the “Analytical Painting” definition, that Honnef critically conceived, featuring an European connotation. Most in detail, Cacciola stands out as against the other components of Italian “Analytical Painting” – that includes artists such as Gastini, Grigga, Guarneri, Morales, Olivieri, Pinelli, Verna, Zappettini and more – for an outstanding interest in matters, especially concrete and asbestos, as well as for the industrial pictorial products, to roll out on supports manufactured on his own, with wood and canvas.

After participating to the X Quadriennial Exhibition in Rome (1975) and Kassel’s document 6 (1977), Cacciola’s path further qualifies, with exhibitions in Washington, Mexico City and other prestigious critical-thematic events focusing on “Analytical Painting”.

During the event scheduled in October in Milan, Cacciola will be exhibiting a range of works selected among his first industrial oil painting on canvas (1973); among his “Integrative surfaces” (1973-74), in which he leads painting from 2D to the environmental experience; among “Concretes with asbestos” (1974-75) and pure “concretes” (1975), “Where environmental space becomes content” (Cacciola) and, at last, among the works from the 2000’s and the most recent ones, in which Cacciola has introduced into the diptychs some mechanical interventions and unity and tension devices among the parts, whose strains are made visible by resins being expanded in a casual way on monochromes and two-chromes on canvas that has been processed through “multigum”.

At Progettoarte-elm exhibition, a bilingual catalogue will be developed with a critical essay by Bruno Corà, including works’ pictures and bibliography. Cacciola’s exhibition will be open, with free entrance, from 21st October to 2nd December 2016.

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