PIERO DORAZIO Paintings 1965-1968 Exhibition 1969

New York: Marlborough-Gerson Gallery. Near Fine. 1969. First Edition. Paperback. 28 pages; Clean and secure in orignal beautiful pictorial wrappers. OCLC 1164658 Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Marlborough-Gerson Gallery in New York City in February, 1969 Catalogue No. 243. Illustrated with twelve colour reproductions; 14 b&w reproductions. Piero Dorazio (1927 - 2005) was an Italian painter. His work was related to color field painting, lyrical abstraction and other forms of abstract art. Dorazio was influenced by futurists such as Gino Severini, Antonio Corpora, Enrico Prampolini, and Giacomo Balla. An aversion to their right-wing views pushed him to align instead with left-leaning artists like Renato Guttuso. Along with Pietro Consagra, Achille Perilli, and Giulio Turcato, he helped formulate a manifesto and establish a group of abstract artists in 1947 called Forma I. In 1947 Dorazio won a prize and a stipend from the French government to study at the École des Beaux-Arts of Paris. In 1950 Dorazio and others founded L'Age d'Or , a bookstore/gallery space dedicated to abstract art. In 1952, he promoted the foundation Origin with Alberto Burri, Ettore Colla and others, and edited the magazine Arti Visive. In 1953 he travelled to the United States for the International Summer Seminar at Harvard University. After the seminar, Dorazio moved to New York City and in October 1953 had his first solo exhibition at George Wittenborn's One-Wall Gallery. In 1959 he began teaching at the Graduate School of Fine Arts at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design. While teaching over the next 10 years, he split his time between the United States and Italy. In 1970 he returned to live and work full-time in Rome. Dorazio is mostly known for paintings with thick bands of bright colour and crosshatched grids. While abstract, his paintings do not neglect detail or complexity. His style is in line with what Clement Greenberg later described as "Post-painterly abstraction". .