NEWS
9/7/11 TURI SIMETI
VERNISSAGE Sabato 10 Settembre 2011 ore 18.00
HOTEL SPLENDID - BAVENO
Turi Simeti was born in Alcamo, in the province of Trapani in 1929. He moved to Rome in 1958 where he got in touch with the art world getting to know Alberto Burri and to spend time in his studio. These inspirations gave rise, in the early Sixties, to an initial production of works comprising various materials. In these years he also spent long periods of time in London, Paris and Basel.In the early Sixties, in line with contemporary experiences at the international level motivated by a shared desire to free artistic expression from tradition and pre-established codes through the acquisition of monochromy and relief as the sole compositive forms, his language defined and structured itself around a geometric element, the ellipse, which was to become the code of his artistic work.
