(Pizzo Calabro 1911–1995 Dello/Brescia)
Untitled, 1973, signed and dated on the reverse, acrylic on canvas on tulle, 163 x 136 cm, framed

This work is registered in the Archivio Angelo Savelli curated by Luigi Sansone and is accompanied by a photo certificate of authenticity

Provenance:
Kodama Collection, Osaka (label on the reverse)
European Private Collection

Angelo Savelli. The master of white
Angelo Savelli. The master of white, Marca, Catanzaro, until 30 March 2013
Calabrese by birth, Roman by training and American by maturity, Savelli continues to be an isolated case within post-war art.

Savelli’s season of transition from figuration to abstraction is, under the banner of light, a sort of dynamic of the sign that weaves nervous filaments in an entirely emotional space.

Then, at the turn of the 1950s, came the choice to work exclusively in white. This was nothing to do with the Monochrome Malerei and the Manzonian achromia of the same years. Savelli thinks differently, of a purified idea of structure, of the point at which the formal mechanism manifests itself to the essential degree, before any attribution.

Savelli works primarily on the spatial dimension. He gives life to real places that breathe a formal mysticism that becomes a transcendental mood: one could say he works through paradox, giving an appropriate and unrelated physical consistency to the abstractness of geometry.

His work is above all silent. It is the poetic condition that Savelli chooses, and never relinquishes in decades of lucid, sweetly estranged research.