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GIAN BERTO VANNI
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CATALOGUE RAISONNÈ
GV5822
Onda in biondo
New York, 1958
Oil on Canvas
35 x 14 in., 89 x 36 cm. Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA, USA
catalog number of the Seattle Art Museum: 59.49
[IMAGE MISSING] GV5824
Suspension
New York, 1958
Oil on Canvas Whereabouts unknown
[IMAGE MISSING] GV5825
Dreamed landscape
New York, 1958
Oil on Canvas
32 x 28 in., 81 x 71 cm. Whereabouts unknown
other title: Paysage Rèvé
GV5901
Onda in rosso
Paris, 1959
Oil on Canvas
49.2 x 15.8 in., 125 x 40 cm. Private Collection, Paris, France
other title: Paesaggio rosso
GV5902
Frammenti orientali
Paris, 1959
Oil on Canvas
35.4 x 39.4 in., 90 x 100 cm. Private Collection, Castellanza, Italy
In this work painted at the beginning of '59, after his return to Paris, Vanni shows how painting technique was essential for the expression of his figurative logic. The red background, contrasting its Gestaltic meaning, is painted with a technique that suggests an aerial reading, underlining its spatial value. It is in fact made up of three layers, where the first layer of carmine allows a glimpse of the canvas's weft; the middle layer of a brighter red is spread in a fragmentary manner and the upper layer of scarlet is concentrated in rubbing around the stellar forms. This helps to recreate the phenomenon that Vanni had observed in Holland in the luminous density of the air. To prevent the small floating forms from being read as placed above the chromatic field and not