Depero Halley Replay

In Depero Halley Replay at the Futurism & Co Art Gallery in Rome, Italy, the artistic continuity between two central figures of abstract art, Fortunato Depero’s (1892- 1960) Futuristic Abstractionism of the 1920’s to 1940’s and Peter Halley’s (1953-) Neo-Geometric Conceptualism of the 1980’s are explored.

Curators Giancarlo Carpi and Graziano Menolascina selected 30 key works from private collectors, that delineate the uniqueness as well as artistic similarities of Depero and Halley, in the use of colors, texture and intellection.

Both artists, use space with bright chromatic effects set in a textured urban, tropical or mechanical abstract setting.

In the automated-robotic nature of Depero’s animated characters, a dynamic, futuristic modern life, is expressed with intense colors and geometric language.

Halley’s flat, two dimensional pictorial works, which he defines as flat sculptures, represent the degradation of the human experience and the sense of alienation created by the surrounding physical as well as psychological ‘prisons’ and ‘cells’, symbolized by squares and rectangles. Connecting places and people are disembodied linear conduits. A master of Day-Glo, Halley’s social criticism is illuminated by a fugue of fluorescent acrylic hues while traction in the conduits is created through the use of Roll-A-Tex, a stucco-like texture.

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