Domenico Gnoli (painter)

Domenico Gnoli ( May 3, 1933, Rome, Italy, † April 17, 1970 in New York City, USA ) was an Italian painter, printmaker and draftsman.

Life and work

Domenico Gnoli had his education in a private school. After the first drawings and exhibitions in Rome (La cassapanca 1950) and Brussels ( 1951), he worked in the 1950s as a set designer in the theater d ' Italia in London and in Paris, and as an illustrator for various newspapers.

Gnoli moved in 1955 to the USA and lived from 1955 to 1962 in New York. In his painting he turned, contrary to the prevailing trend towards abstraction and to the informal, early figuration to. However, his images rapture the depicted object from the real world of men.

Domenico Gnoli painted huge cutouts - enlarged shirt collar, a button or a shoe. He isolated in his paintings everyday objects and put them out of context in a partially frightening, most puzzling art world dar. This deserted art reality in his works has echoes of Surrealism and simultaneously to the Pop Art, but is in its oversized, unreal expression rather unique.

In 1968 was Domenico Gnoli with five oil paintings ( including the " collar ": " Tor de cou 15 ½ " and the button " Bouton " ) represented at the documenta 4 in Kassel. In the same year his works were exhibited at the Kestner -Gesellschaft in Hannover.

His works are part of the collection of many major museums worldwide, including the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, the New National Gallery in Berlin, the Museum Ludwig in Cologne, the this and the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, the Kunsthalle of Hamburg, Von der Heydt - Museum Wuppertal, the Royal Museums of Fine Arts in Brussels.

Literature and sources

  • Exhibition catalog for solo exhibition in 1968 at the Kestner -Gesellschaft, Hannover with introductory notes by Wieland Schmied
  • Exhibition catalog for Documenta IV: IV documentation. International Exhibition; Catalogue: Volume 1: ( painting and sculpture ); Volume 2: (graphics / objects ); Kassel 1968
  • Kimpel, Harald / stem, Karin: documenta IV International Exhibition 1968 - A photographic reconstruction ( Series of the documenta - Archives); Bremen 2007, ISBN 978-3-86108-524-9
  • Gnoli, 1981: Domenico Gnoli 1933-1970. Paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints ( exhibition catalog), Kunsthalle Bremen 1981
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