Signed Fausto Melotti Modernist Gold Metal Leaf Oil Painting on canvas from the collection of noted collector and respected gallery owner, Kenneth Dukoff of Niagara Falls, NY
Fausto Melotti Modernist Oil and Metal Leaf Painting Melotti’s art has appeared sporadically in group shows of Italian sculpture, but he has never had a solo exhibition in New York. The first major Melotti retrospective in this country, organized by the independent curator and art advisor Elena Geuna, fills two floors of the Acquavella Galleries town house with sculptures, from his plaster works of 1935 to wire constructions from 1984. His work unites disparate strains of 20th-century Italian art: the Futurist embrace of modernity, the metaphysical yearnings of the Surrealists and the material curiosity of Arte Povera.

The exhibition catalog, an appropriately scholarly affair, features essays by the international curator Germano Celant; Stephen Nash, director of the Palm Springs Art Museum; and Melotti’s longtime friend Italo Calvino.
approx 48"W x 42"H x 3'D



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