Dellupi Arte is pleased to announce the opening of its new season, with the exhibition CoBrA e origini. The show includes a selection of paintings by the leading exponents of the CoBrA movement, in dialogue with works by Enrico Baj and Pinot Gallizio. The project aims to focus on one of the most vibrant artistic periods in post-war Europe when, during the fifties and sixties, through the links between Asger Jorn, Karel Appel and the two Italian artists, the pictorial language promoted by the CoBrA members merged with informal Italian trends.

Shapes of people, human heads and animals recur, characteristically uniting the works in the exhibition. Anthropomorphism and transformation of the figure come to life in Enrico Baj’s work, with a fantastic, grotesque iconography, created through the materiality of the painted surface or through emphasis on textures and mixed media. There are also hints of figuration in Jorn and in Appel oeuvre, in which blocks of colour and bold outlines enhance the tactile, expressive brushwork. The idea of “free” painting, shared by Jorn also, was at the basis of the aesthetic of Pinot Gallizio, inventor of multiple expressive languages, keeping a constant balance between the figurative and the abstract.

CoBrA e origini is intended as a homage to a lively artistic period, but also as an exploration of an idea of painting which finds, in Pinot Gallizio especially, an undisputed protagonist in the historical and cultural landscape of the period. Works by Corneille and Constant are also included in the exhibition.