EMILIO VEDOVA Italy, 1919 - 2006

The son of an artisan, Emilio Vedova was essentially self-taught as an artist. In the 1930s and '40s he was a member of the group Corrente and in the 1950s was part of the Eight (with Afro, Birolli, Corpora, Moreni, Morlotti, Santomaso and Turcato) and asserted himself as one of the top artists of the European Informel movement. In the 1960s he was active n Berlin and was successful at Kassel Documenta in 1964. 

Vedova is best known for his expressionist abstract paintings whose surfaces bear energetic, sweeping strokes of paint, splatters, dribbles and scratches.  In 1964-65 while living in Berlin  he began to experiment with angular canvases that he combined in a sculptural way.  These paintings, called plurimi by the artist, were placed in free-standing arrangements or hung from hooks in the open space of a gallery. These revolutionary paintings functioned as three-dimensional objects that the viewer could step into and around.   

 Vedova's list of awards includes prizes from the most auspicious exhibitions in the world, including the Sao Paolo Biennale, Brazil; the Venice Biennale and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation Award for Italy among many others. He was named a Cavalier of the Republic of Italy by President Oscar Luigi Scalfaro in 1996. His work is in the collections of the National Gallery of Modern Art, Rome; Peggy Guggenheim Foundation, Venice; Hamburger Kunsthalle, Germany; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; and The Art Museum, Princeton University, New Jersey, among numerous others.

A retrospective exhibition, “Emilio Vedova 1919-2006,” was mounted in 2008 by the State Museum of Modern Art in Berlin, Germany.

 Print 17, 1990  

 Intaglio vitreograph on Arches White, Edition of 20

 image size:  23 x 28 inches; paper size  29 ½ x 41½ inches           $4,000*

Print 24, 1990  

 Intaglio vitreograph on Arches White, Edition of 20

 image size:  14 x 23 inches; paper size  22 x 30 inches                   $2,000*

Print 34, 1991  

 Intaglio vitreograph on Arches White, Edition of 4

 image size:  23  x 14 inches; paper size  30 x 22 inches                   $4,000*

 Print Edition E, 1991  

 Intaglio vitreograph on Arches White, Edition of 6

 image size:  23 x 42 inches

 paper size  37 x 51 inches                                                             $6,000*

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