Dellupi Arte continues the exhibition cycle centred on informal art with a solo show dedicated to Hans Hartung, presenting a careful selection of paintings produced solely in the 1960s.
Inaugurated with the assignment of the Grand Premio for Painting at the XXXa Venice Biennale, the Sixties represent a particularly creative season in Hartung’s artistic research, whereby he uses innovative art techniques, combining lyricism and pictorial imagination. From 1961 to 1965, Hartung refines the technique of grattage, which consists of “scratching” with various instruments the still fresh painting laid on the canvas painted with blown color. For this production method, Hartung uses new tools, experimenting with common tools and everyday objects such as rollers, brushes, branches and garden racks, but also airbrushes, splashes and compressors.

In the exhibited works, Hartung declines his poetic vocabulary according to a vivid and vital pictorial language. No sign dominates the canvas but masses of dark color in the tones of black and blue, large forms that evaporate, lose or stretch on wide areas become the medium through which to immortal matter, light and spirit, the driving force of the universe.