225. Ugo Nespolo
b. 1941
Untitled aniline paint on wood 50 x 40 x 18.5 cm (19 5/8 x 15 3/4 x 7 1/4 in.) Executed in 1967. Estimate £12,000-18,000 $15,500-23,200 €13,300-20,000 ♠ Provenance Private Collection, Paris (acquired directly from the artist in the 1970s) Exhibited Turin, Christian Stein Gallery; Galleria Il Punto; Galleria Sperone Gallery, Con temp l’azione, December 1967 Milan, Galleria Schwarz, Macchine e oggetti condizionali, 5 - 30 March 1968
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‘Nespolo’s reality does not afrm itself as an immediate revelation, enlightening and all-encompassing; rather, it appears like a thin, intermediate zone halfway between the singularisation of the object and its direct appropriation.’ (Pierre Restany, quoted in ‘Ugo Nespolo and the critique of practical reason’ Macchine e oggetti condizionali, exh. cat. Galleria Schwarz, Milan, 1968)
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