Organised in cooperation with the Fondazione Piero Manzoni, the exhibition celebrates the work of Manzoni and friends during the brief life of the Azimut Gallery in Milan from 1959 to 1960.
Opening at Gagosian Davies Street, 16th November 2011 -
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| A youthful, experimental exhibition space that lasted just eight months, Azimut presented thirteen exhibitions and became a nerve center for an international set of provocative young artists. The founding of the gallery by Manzoni and Enrico Castellani, with the help of their mentor Lucio Fontana, followed their collaboration on Azimuth, a journal dedicated to the “development of the newest and youngest avant-garde painting.” |
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| The Davies Street gallery transported the visitors back to the former glory days of Azimut |
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| Linee (Lines), drawings of a single line on a length of paper, which he rolled up and sealed in a cardboard tube, then labeled and signed. |
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| Corpo d’Aria (Artist’s Breath) Could it be Larry's breath inside the balloon? |
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| “Manzoni: Azimut” brings together pivotal examples of Manzoni’s serial Achromes, Uovo scultura (Egg Sculptures) |
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| and with early experimental paintings by his friends and collaborators in the Azimut project Enrico Castellani, Agostino Bonalumi, Dadamaino and Lucio Fontana. |
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| ...and finally a memento from Manzoni All images © Artnesia |
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