Capogrossi (Collezione "Arte")

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Capogrossi (Collezione "Arte")

Artist Giuseppe Capogrossi (Italian, 1900-1972)

Publisher Cavallino, Venice,1966

Printer Serigrapfia Marchitalia-Bogoni, Milan

Date1966

DimensionsBook: H: 6 in. (153 mm); W: 4 3/16 in. (106 mm); Depth: 1 in. (25 mm).
Page: H: 5 3/4 in. (146 mm); W: 3 7/8 in. (98 mm).
Sheet: H: 5 3/4 in. (146 mm); W: 92 1/2 in. (2350 mm).

MediumOriginal prints: screenprints in colors on white wove paper. Text: letterpress.

ClassificationBooks

Credit LineGift of Molly and Walter Bareiss

Object number

1984.333

Not on View

Label TextCavallino Accordion Books Pierre Alechinsky, Minutes (Moments) (1967) Giuseppe Capogrossi, Capogrossi (1966) Franco Gentilini, Oggetti figure animali per una storia (Objects, Figures, Animals for a Story) (1965) The Venetian publishing house Cavallino primarily creates limited edition art and literature books. In the 1960s Cavallino began publishing a series of pocket books by international artists. Each book was the same size with an accordion binding. Many featured original artwork. Three of these books are displayed here. Minutes by Belgian artist Pierre Alechinsky features a facsimile of the artist’s collage, ink, and paint additions to 18th-century documents. In 1958, a fellow artist gave Alechinsky a stack of old papers, on which he began to draw. Ten years later he wrote, “I still retain the craze for collecting fine old paper... Rough-surfaced sheets with imprecise edges, note books, registers covered in writing...” Giuseppe Capogrossi began his career as a figural artist. By the 1950s he had developed an abstract language of comb-like shapes that he repeats in a variety of arrangements and colors. In the 1930s Franco Gentilini worked as a ceramicist and as an illustrator in addition to pursuing a career as a painter. By the 1950s he was exhibiting his work in one-man shows in Paris. In his accordion book Objects, Figures, Animals for a Story, he presents a sort of diary of his work. It reproduces collages, paintings, drawings, and writing from different periods of his career.Exhibition HistoryToledo Museum of Art, Splendid Pages: The Molly and Walter Bareiss Collection of Modern Illustrated Books, Feb. 14--May 11, 2003.