For its third participation at Art Basel – Miami Beach, Tornabuoni Art has chosen to exhibit a selection of works of Italian artists from the sixties and their influence on the contemporary scene. 

Italian Sixties define a period of intense artistic and aesthetic challenges that occurred in Italy when the great Fontana, Scheggi and Bonalumi liberated themselves from the established artistic traditions to offer a new vision of art.

During the 1960s and in the following decades, social and political revolutions have changed the Intelligentsia and artists. With the help of these artists, this revolution became the emblem of change, non-conformist ideas and the broadening of human and pictorial knowledge.

The decade between 1960 and 1970 gave birth to the redefinition of the pictorial language and the expansion of the representation’s limits.

The Italian Sixties bore witness to the rupture of the unified and hegemonic vision of the world and art, a vision mostly based on Western ideologies. This generation of artists, lead by Lucio Fontana slowly broke away from the rigid artistic conventions to produce powerful artworks, putting aside the figurative representation in order to change the perception of light and colour on the canvas.

This period founded a new aesthetic that continues to influence today’s young generation of artists such as Francesca Pasquali. Inspired by the research developed by her peers on the surface, the expressiveness, and the three-dimensionality of the canvas, Pasquali elaborates artworks of multi-sensory experiences where movement and poetry blend together.

Confirming its commitment to Italian art and the new forms that it takes today, Tornabuoni Art proposes for the next edition of Art Basel Miami Beach, an homage to these pioneers of post-war within a booth which looks to the future.

About Tornabuoni Art

Tornabuoni Arte was founded in 1981 by Roberto Casamonti and is specialized in Italian art of the second half of the 20th Century. It established exhibition spaces in Milan in 1995, Portofino in 2001, Forte Dei Marmi in 2004 and on October 1st 2009 in Paris, 16 avenue Matignon in the 8th district.

The gallery also proposes works of essential artists of the 20th Century such as Picasso, Mirò, Kandinsky, Hartung, Poliakoff, Dubuffet, Lam, Matta, Christo, Wesselmann, Warhol and Basquiat.

The gallery wishes to offer a new visibility to the artists it represents with its soon to be opened exhibition space on 46 Albemarle Street, in the area of Mayfair, London, an important meeting point for the European and American art market.