Claudio Parmiggiani, „Poesie Dipinte“, 1981
Title in red and black, text printed in several colours, 24 pages, language: Italian with German translations by Konrad Balder Schäuffelen
25x32.5cm
150€ (incl. VAT plus shipping costs)
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Italian artist Claudio Parmiggiani presents new works from his Delocazioni series in the exhibition The Presence of Absence (12.10.2024–02.03.2025). Shadows, traces and imprints – realised from fire, dust and smoke – become metaphors of absence, transience and memory.
Peter Weiermair, director of the Frankfurter Kunstverein from 1980 to 1998, dedicated two solo exhibitions to Parmiggiani in 1981 and 1988. The artist’s book Poesie Dipinte (Painted Poems) was published in 1981 as a unique edition for the members of the Frankfurter Kunstverein and contains a selection of poems written by Parmiggiani. Each copy of this book, which combines poetry and art in a special way, is numbered and personally signed by the artist – a rare collector’s item.
Claudio Parmiggiani (b. 1943, Luzzara, IT) lives and works in Parma, IT. He is one of the central figures in post-war art in Italy and Europe. Although Parmiggiani chose an independent path within the Italian art scene and never aligned himself with a specific artistic movement, his work can be situated between Arte Povera and Conceptual Art. His works have been exhibited internationally in museums and collections. Solo exhibitions have taken place at the following institutions: Frist Museum, Nashville, TN (US), Accademia di Francia Villa Medici, Rome (IT), Palais des Beaux-Arts – BOZAR, Brussels (BE), Palazzo del Governatore, Parma (IT), Palazzo Fabroni Arti Visive Contemporanee, Pistoia (IT), Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes (FR), Grand Palais, Paris (FR), Galleria d’Arte Moderna di Bologna (IT), Museum of Art, Tel Aviv (IL), Musée Fabre, Montpellier (FR), and the Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main (DE). Parmiggiani also participated in the Venice Biennale (IT) six times. His works are part of prominent collections, including those of the Centre Pompidou, Paris (FR), Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (NL), Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana (CU), National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavík (IS), Mamco – Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva (CH), Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris (FR), Francois Pinault Foundation, Venice (IT), and Museo del Novecento, Milan (IT). In his literary work, the following publications stand out: Poesie dipinte (1981), Il sangue del colore (1988), Stella Sangue Spirito (published in 1995, 2003, and 2007), Incipit (2008), Una fede in niente ma totale (2010), and Lettere a Luisa (2016).