Crippa Roberto
((Italy, 1921–1972))
- Group show at a major institution - Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), and Museo Reina Sofia
- Included in a major biennial - Venice Biennale International Exhibition
- Collected by a major institution - Tate, and Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
Italian painter (Milan 1921-Bresso 1972). He studied at the Brera Academy under the guidance of Oreste Carpi, Achille Funi, Carlo Carrà. In 1946 he started his famous cicle called "spirals", of a sign-gestural nature, with a component of unconscious automatism that made him compare, first among Italians, to the American Action Painting painters. He met Fontana in 1947, and he brought him into the realm of spatialism. A trip to United States in 1950 brought him into contact with Max Ernst, Wilfredo Lam, Victor Brauner. He arranged his spirals in surrealist images, primitive and sacred, expressions of an animistic and totemic world. He remained faithful to this world in successive material solutions, made with collages of bark, cork, newspaper clippings and representatives of primordial landscapes seen according to aerial perspectives.
(an extract from website sapere.it, De Agostini su Roberto Crippa)
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Spirale, 1954
cm 50x70, Original oil painting on canvas
