Title: Klee -- Melotti /
Authors: Comis, Guido.; Della Casa, Bettina.; Barocco, Francesco.; Klee, Paul, 1879-1940.; Melotti, Fausto.; Barocco, Francesco, 1972-; Museo d'arte (Lugano, Switzerland)
Year: 2013
Subjects: Klee, Paul, Exhibitions.; Melotti, Fausto Exhibitions.
Abstract: More than eighty paintings, watercolors and drawings by Paul Klee (1879-1940), one of the most representative painters of the 1900s, are compared to just as many sculptures by Fausto Melotti (1901-1986), a leading figure in the Italian art scene of the twentieth century, and the subject of great international interest in recent years. The works by these two artists give rise to a surprising dialogue: this catalogue, divided into chapters on specific themes, brings to light the artists' common interests - music and literature first and foremost - and their stylistic similarities. Several critical texts analyze the visual relationship between Klee and Melotti, while writings by contemporary artists highlight the modernity of their language.
Contents: Klee-Melotti : ragioni di una mostra = reasons for an exhibition / Marco Franciolli -- Klee e Melotti : un percorso fra analogie e differenze = Klee and Melotti : a path of similarities and differences / Guido Comis -- Spazio e linea, aria e materia : gli scritti : conversazioni tra Klee e Melotti = Space and line, air and matter : the writings : conversation between Klee and Melotti / Berttina Della Casa -- La vita dei numeri : Klee, Melotti e i limiti del calcolo matematico = The life of numbers : Klee, Melotti, and the limits of mathematical calculation / Nina Gülicher -- La visione dei suoni = The vision of sounds / Paolo Repetto -- Klee e Melotti : un sentire (talvolta) comune = Klee and Melotti : a (sometimes) common feeling / Fabrizio D'Amico -- Paul Klee tra "forma" e pastiche = Paul Klee between "form" and Pastiche / Michele Dantini -- Modernità milanese e antichità minoica nel pensiero di Melotti = Milanese modernity and Minoan antiquity in Melotti's mind / Kurt W. Forster -- Per una cronoligia della ricezione di Klee in Italia = A chronology of Klee's reception in Italy / Lara Conte -- Contrappunto (punti e linee di un disegno) = Counterpoint (points and lines of a drawing) / Giulio Paolini -- Agemina : il solco del segno = Damascening : the undercutting of the sign / Francesco Barocco -- Paul Klee : profilo critico-biografico = biographical-critical notes / edited by Lara Conte -- Fausto Melotti : profilo critico-biografico = biographical-critical notes / edited by Lara Conte.