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GIAN BERTO VANNI
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CATALOGUE RAISONNÈ
GV5116
Erba sul canale
Vinkeveen, 1951
Oil on Canvas
19.7 x 27.6 in., 50 x 70 cm. Vanni Estate Collection
Exhib: Sesta Quadriennale Nazionale d’Arte di Roma, Rome, December 1951 - April 1952
Another work painted in
Vinkeeven were he introduces
graphisms inspired by Van Gogh to expresses the structure underlying the geometric distortion of the composition. The space is subject to an optical grid that conditions the elements it contains but is also conditioned by the forces contained in them: the single components express their strength through their chromaticism underlined by the graphic framework. Vanni wrote at that time: "Here it seems to see millions of tones, reflections, variations and light has a bodily something like a spectral light that penetrates things, and things are like condensed air".
GV5117
Paesaggio in Rosso
Vinkeveen, 1951
Oil on Canvas
17.7 x 31.5 in., 45 x 80 cm. Whereabouts unknown
black and white reproduction, colored by the artist to render the original artwork’s colors
GV5118
Orizzonti multipli
Amsterdam, 1951 Watercolor on Paper Whereabouts unknown
GV5119
Lacustre II
Vinkeveen, 1951
Oil on Canvas
28.5 x 28.5 in., 72 x 72 cm. Signed lower right
Vanni Estate Collection
This artwork develops all the
spatial concepts of Lacustre I (GV5115) about his interpretation of nature through a geometric grid and horizon lines, which acts as a physical and logical support for the elements and their reflections. It also features a central perspective that he uses to structure the succession of horizon lines without this leading to a relative shrinkage, denying the three-dimensional space to which he alludes. This is the starting point for the idea of a painting visible from any one of the sides, which Vanni would develop in the 1990s when he created a series of works to hang from the ceiling.