Marcello Morandini Lot n° 33

Marcello Morandini 153-A-1971 1971/1974 Wall structure: Opaque black aluminum on anodized aluminum 61 x 61 x 1.5 cm. Overall dimensions 391 x 967 x 2 cm. On an aluminum square with the hallmarked signature and date "M.MORANDINI 1974". - With slight signs of age. Marco Meneguzzo, Marcello Morandini, catalogo ragionato, Milan 2019, WVZ no. 491. Provenance Company collection, Hanover Literature Marcello Morandini, Arte e Design, exh. cat. Palácio Galveias, Lisbon, Milan 1994, p.37 Wieland Schmied, Marcello Morandini, exhibition cat. Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Milan 1993, p.37 Marcello Morandini, analyses, drafts, realizations, exhibition cat. City Theatre Ingolstadt, Gavirate 1986, p.78/79 Marcello Morandini, exhibition cat. Museo di Castelvecchio, Verona, Gavirate 1985, p.78/79 Manfred Fath (ed.), Marcello Morandini, Analysen, Entwürfe, Realisationen 1964-1980, exhibition cat. UNAC Tokyo u.a., Mannheim 1984, o.p. with ill. Marcello Morandini, Sculptures, Structures, Drawings, exhibition cat. Museum Bochum et al., Bochum 1978, p.38 with ill. Peter Pfeiffer (ed.), Marcello Morandini 1964/1975, Progetti, disegni, structure, sculture, Opera completa 1964/1975, Milan 1976, cat.no.141, p.60/61 The work of art was professionally dismantled and is stored in Hanover. For further information: Tel +49 221 925729-32 Marcello Morandini's dominant theme is the representation of movement and change of geometric bodies in a plane or in space. With systematic and mathematical precision, but at the same time full of curiosity and creative intuition, the artist processes the sheer endless possibilities that arise from this in graphics, reliefs, wall structures and free-standing sculptures. In his purist works he restricts himself to the use of black and white in order to make the bodies and processes visible with the greatest possible clarity. The aspect of simultaneity is always important: the continuous movements and changes of the bodies are not depicted one after the other, but side by side. The dynamic process remains visible from beginning to end, thus appearing reversible and infinitely repeatable. For the monumental wall piece "153-A", the artist once again implements a scheme that he had already developed for an edition in 1971 (see Marcello Morandini, Ausst.Kat. Kestner-Gesellschaft Hannover 1972, fig. p. 77). In a process of transformation consisting of 64 phases, the artist allows four black segments in a white square to expand steadily inwards from the edge until they completely fill the square base in black.