Lot 51: DIEGO ESPOSITO

DIEGO ESPOSITO ITALIAN B. 1940 UNTITLED 2009 watercolour on handmade paper 87 x 87 cm / 34.25 x 34.25"

Some recent solo exhibitions
Galleria Giacomo Guidi, Rome 2009
Gallery Ihn, Seoul 2005
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa 2004
University Art Gallery, UCSD, La Jolla 2000

Some recent group exhibitions
Fondazione Puglisi Cosentino, Catania 2009, 'CONSTANTI del classico nell'arte del XX e XXI secolo' XXII Biennale Internazionale di Scultura di Carrara, 2006
Fondazione A. Pomodoro, Milan 2005, 'La scultura italiana del XX secolo'
Haifa Museum of Art, 2004, 'Haifa Second International Installation Triennale'

Selected publications
Bruno Corà, Diego Esposito: blue outside, Milan: Skira 2003
A. Kohlmeyer, Diego Esposito, Ludwigsburg: Kunstverein 2001
F. Nanjo, C. Severi, D. Zacharopoulos [et al.],
Diego Esposito – Passaggi, Milan: Skira 1998
P.L. Tazzi [et al.], Diego Esposito, Milan: Edizioni Mudima 1996

Selected public and corporate collections
Galleria d'Arte Moderna di Bologna, IT• Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea L. Pecci, Prato, IT • Yawaku Garden, Kanazawa, JP • Seoul Museum of Art, KR • Oriental Land Park, Shanghai, CN

donated by the artist

Diego Esposito work hails from a long tradition of post-painterly abstraction and of American minimal art, which he has nourished throughout the years. The works of Esposito always deal with light and space, with colour and form, with movement and sound. 'I don't see it as colour, but as colour-form, like a place of echoes, with sounds, and their vibrations,' he says. He travelled extensively around the Mediterranean and in the Middle East and took with him: folded canvases and note books in which he recorded his memories of the places he visited. Although most of his works seem stern and puritanical at first glance, they stimulate all senses. Poetically touching on myths and religion, nature and architecture, music, painting, movement and dance.

Diego Esposito was guest advisor at the Rijksakademie.

www.diegoesposito.it