Almine Rech Gallery

27-07-2021: www.alminerech.com/artists/230-turi-simeti

Turi Simeti

  • , Sei ovali gialli, 2015
    Acrylic on shaped canvas
    150 x 120 cm
    59 x 47 1/4 in
  • , 17 foto della performance, 1971
    Photographs
  • , Distruzione d’un aliante, 1971
    Eleven containers
    36 x 40 cm (6), 50 x 40 cm (5)
  • , Tre ovali neri, 1993
    Plexiglas
    81 x 122 x 12 cm
  • , Trittico grigio, 2015
    Acrylic on shaped canvas
    130 x 390 cm
  • , Quattro ovali bianchi, 2015
    Acrylic on shaped canvas
    180 x 180 cm
  • , Tre ovali bianchi, 2015
    Acrylic on shaped canvas
    200 x 150 cm
  • , Dittico bianco, 2014
    Acrylic on shaped canvas
    120 x 300 cm
  • , Nove ovali bianchi, 2015
    Acrylic on shaped canvas
    140 x 180 cm
  • , Sei ovali bianchi, 2014
    Acrylic on shaped canvas
    180 x 140 cm
  • , Sei ovali blu, 2015
    Acrylic on shaped canvas
    100 x 200 cm
  • , Due ovali bianchi, 2015
    Acrylic on shaped canvas
    180 x 180 cm
  • , Cinque ovali gialli, 2014
    Acrylic on shaped canvas
    180 x 180 cm
  • , Polittico nero, 1979
    Acrylic on shaped canvas
    100 x 120 cm
  • , Quadrato su quadrato, 2005
    Shaped waxed canvas
    100 x 100 cm
  • , Trittico, 1984
    Acrylic on shaped canvas
    84 x 117 cm
  • , Quaranta ovali verdi, 1966
    Acrylic on shaped canvas
    29 x 29 cm
  • , Superficie blu con piccoli ovali, 1967
    Acrylic on shaped canvas
    90 x 55 cm
  • , Quattro ovali bianchi, 2015
    Acrylic on shaped canvas
    200 x 150 cm
  • , Centosessantanove ovali neri, 1963
    Collage of wood on canvas
    200 x 150 cm
  • , Settantadue ovali neri, 1962
    Cardboard on canvas
    150 x 130 cm
  • , Trintacinque ovali neri, 1966
    Rubber on canvas
    40 x 40 cm
  • , Nove ovali neri, 1963
    Collage on linoleum
    40 x 30 cm
  • , Segno nero, 1973
    Acrylic on shaped canvas
    60 x 60 cm
  • , Tre ovali, 1982
    Raku ceramic
    22 x 33 cm
  • , Due ovali argentati, 2014
    Waxed shaped canvas
    30 x 19 cm
  • , Un ovale ocra, 1964
    Collage of canvas on canvas
    29 x 24,5 cm
  • , Un ovale giallo, 1968
    Acrylic on shaped canvas
    20 x 20 cm
  • , Un ovale nero, 1975
    Acrylic on shaped canvas
    30,5 x 30,5 cm
  • , Rilievo su rete metallica , 1972
    Shaped metallic netting
    46 x 56 cm
  • , Due ovali grigi, 1987
    Shaped waxed canvas
    19 x 15,5 cm
  • , Due ovali neri, 2010
    Acrylic on waxed shaped canvas
    33 x 22 cm
  • , Quattro quadrati neri, 1973
    Acrylic on shaped canvas
    60 x 60 cm
  • , Collage con bruciature, 1961
    Collage of envelops on board
    22 x 26,5 cm
  • , Collage di carte con bruciature, 1961
    Collage of envelops on board
    22 x 26,5 cm
  • , Collage con bruciature, 1961
    Collage of envelops on board
    22 x 26,5 cm
  • , Collage di carte con bruciature, 1961
    Collage of envelops on board
    22 x 26,5 cm
  • , Ex collage, 1965
    Imprint on canvas
    58 x 66 cm
  • , Tre ovali arancione, 1961
    Collage of envelops on canvas
    74 x 78 cm
  • , Composizione, 1961
    Collage of burnt paper on canvas
    64 x 80 cm
  • , Collage di buste, 1961
    Collage of envelops on canvas
    56 x 45 cm
  • , Collage con rete metallica, 1960
    Collage on canvas
    75 x 45,5 cm
  • , Pittura Oggetuale
    Poster
  • , 24 ovali rossi, 1967
    Acrylic on shaped canvas
    100 x 120 cm
  • , Due ovali verdi, 2004
    Acrylic on shaped canvas
    80 x 80 cm
  • , Quattro ovali neri, 2015
    Acrylic on shaped canvas
    100 x 200 cm
  • , Sei ovali gialli, 2015
    Acrylic on shaped canvas
    100 x 100 cm
  • , Dittico bianco e nero, 2014
    Acrylic on shaped canvas - Diptyque
    80 x 160 cm
  • , Dodici ovali bianchi, 2015
    Acrylic on shaped canvas
    200 x 100 cm
  • , Sei ovali rossi, 2014
    Acrylic on shaped canvas
    180 x 120 cm
  • , Due ovali bianchi, 2014
    Acrylic on shaped canvas
    150 x 200 cm
  • , Un ovale nero, 1978
    Acrylic on shaped canvas
    140 x 140 cm
  • , 13 ovali bianchi, 2013
    Acrylic on shaped canvas
    200 x 150 cm
  • , Posters for the exhibition Zero Avantgarde
  • , 3 ovali bianchi, 1978
    Acrylic on canvas
    100 x 100 cm
  • , Trittico nero, 1976
    Acrylic on canvas
    120 x 88 cm

Born in 1929 in Sicily, Turi Simeti settled in Rome in 1958, where he regularly visited Alberto Burri's workshop. He started painting and made his debut amongst the artists of the Art Informel movement. In 1960 in Milan, Simeti met Fontana, Manzoni, Castellani and Bonalumi. In this climate of vibrant dialogue, the artist took part in the changes occurring at that time in European art history. Simeti's first Milanese years led to a considerable number of experiences where the surface of his canvases became a space to be conquered with radical elements, drawn both from minimalism and the notion of the monochrome. Simeti creates in his works different types of tension on several formats, frequently relying on small-scale canvases to produce startling dimensions. Employing the motif of the oval, he has attempted to develop an irregular writing system that liberates the surface of the canvas from the principles of materiality, allowing nothing but silence.

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  • Tribute to Turi Simeti


    May 7 - 23, 2021

    EXPLORE ONLINE!

    Almine Rech is pleased to present the first posthumous presentation of Italian artist Turi Simeti (1929 – 2021), on view in the gallery’s Online Viewing Room from May 7 to 23, 2021.

    Turi Simeti is widely recognized as one of the last representatives of the generation of Milanese artists who shook up Italian art during the second half of the 20th century. The selection will reflect signature elements of Turi Simeti’s career, conceived to celebrate the full scope of his artistic legacy.

    Turi Simeti’s use of pure, saturated tones such as red or yellow is embodied by this selection of late works, created between 2014 and 2018. His works have a sculptural aspect, utilizing an oval shape made of wood that creates volume on the canvas. This signature technique produces different relief patterns on the surface of his paintings that invite a play of shadows and light across monochrome colors such as yellow, red or black. Employing the recurrent motif of the oval, Turi Simeti set out to develop an irregular writing system that would liberate the surface of the canvas from the principles of materiality, allowing nothing but silence.

    Almine Rech organized several exhibitions with the artist throughout his life, including a retrospective titled Le Choix du Signe curated by Natacha Carron in Brussels in 2015. The same year, Almine Rech Editions published a monograph featuring an array of archival images. Turi Simeti’s work was also shown at Almine Rech Shanghai as part of the 2020 exhibition Spring and in Abstraction(s) at the Song Art Museum in Beijing in 2019, curated by Nicolas Trembley.

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