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16 marzo 2016

TURI SIMETI A NEW YORK DA SCARAMOUCHE

In collaboration with Rosai Ugolini Modern, 
we're delighted to invite you to the exhibition

Turi Simeti "Zero Gravity"
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Image: Turi Simeti, Superficie blu con tondo, 1989, acrylic on shaped canvas, 24.2 x 77.3 in.
Turi Simeti
"Zero Gravity"
Exhibition Dates:   March 12 - May 28, 2016
Opening Reception:   Friday, March 18,  6 - 8 pm
48 Orchard Street, New York, NY

Rosai Ugolini Modern is pleased to present "Zero Gravity", a solo exhibition by Turi Simeti. Continuing its program of showcasing preeminent Italian art, the gallery's third exhibition is dedicated to a  cornerstone of  the European  Minimalist  movement. With works spanning from the Sixties  to  the  present, the show represents  the  first  New  York   retrospective  of  Simeti's monochromatic shaped canvases.

Since his earliest works, Simeti disturbed the placid regularity of the canvas's surface through the application of elements in relief that act as a support for three-dimensionality. His cohesive, aesthetic-formal research brought him to the rigorous choice of monochromatism, and to modulate both the surface and shape of the canvas. By inserting oval (and later, circular) forms into the back of the canvas, Simeti succeeds in articulating the plasticity of the work and determines its pictorial elements. The artist renders visible a series of lights and shadows contained within the intensity of color, a sign of a vivid presence on the canvas's flexed surface. In one of the exhibition's historical pieces, Un ovale verde, executed in 1967, a prominent oval accentuates the acrylic's light and objectifies the shadows, transforming them from ephemeral projections.

Simeti orchestrates successions of elliptical forms with impeccable modularity. Some of the forms emerge delicately from the fullness of color, hinting at a myriad of tones, such as in the work Un ovale nero from 1973, where the imperceptible oval shape tacitly glides on a black surface. Others come forth from the canvas, expanding and multiplying as in the 2013 piece Otto ovali bianchi; Here, the emerging and plunging cadence of the ovals becomes a continuum of autonomous yet related elements, each illuminating the other by way of their own three-dimensionality. Elliptical geometries gravitate in Simeti's system of composition: the color expands and the canvas embraces an ethereal concreteness. Suspended, the forms attempt to liberate themselves from the space created by their own presence. In the 1989 work Superficie blu con tondo, the tactile evanescence of an imposing circular shape looms on the surface with a tense and insoluble calm. By their very nature, the archetypical forms of the circle and ellipse bring his works closer to a timeless dimension, beckoning them towards the eternal.

Turi Simeti (Alcamo, Italy, 1929)
After passing his youth in Sicily, Simeti moved to Rome at 30 years old.