Eugenio Carmi - Untitled

The work is an abstract composition. "Abstract" derives from the Latin term "abstrahere," which means to extract or draw out. The process of abstraction, in fact, consists of eliminating the particular and individual aspects of an object to derive a universal concept. From Kandinsky to Mondrian, from Pollock to Mirò, many painters have pushed the process of abstraction to the limit in their works, paradoxically creating pure forms and pure colors that do not exist in nature, or translating their emotions and instincts into images.

The composition illustrates the explorations into forms, colors, and perception that characterized Eugenio Carmi's artistic research in the 1960s and 1970s. It was a period in which Carmi, as head of image at the Italsider plant in Cornigliano, advocated a parallel path between art and industry. Carmi's abstract art, therefore, draws on Kinetic Art and Op Art, drawing on their geometric and serial nature, consciously exploiting the possibilities offered by mechanical reproduction.

Eugenio Carmi was born in Genoa in 1920 and passed away in Lugano in 2016. Since the 1950s, he has been considered one of the leading exponents of Italian Abstraction. Initially trained under Casorati, he soon abandoned figurative art to turn to Informalism. From the late 1960s, his artistic language was based on geometric rigor and the seriality of mechanical reproduction. His aesthetic thus drew closer to the principles of kinetic art, which he would develop in various experimental forms. In 1966 and 2011, he participated in the Venice Biennale.

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