Frittelli arte contemporanea inaugurates Friday 1 July Arturo Vermi. Figure in un tempo-spazio, [Figures in a time-space] curated by Flaminio Gualdoni. The exhibition, realized in collaboration with Anna Rizzo Vermi, Paolo Berardelli and the Berardelli Foundation, will remain open until 29 October 2016.

The exhibition dedicated to Arturo Vermi (Bergamo 1928 - Paderno d'Adda 1988), one of the most notable figures of the post-World War II neo-avant-garde, intends to document extensively his historical season, in which he established himself within the Milanese Gruppo del Cenobio, founded in 1962.

His Diaries establish themselves as regular iterations of a neutral and unemotional sign that takes the place of scriptural ones, defining only the temporal and spatial component of the action.

Flaminio Gualdoni writes in the catalogue essay: “Entitle Diary, the regular and aligned iteration of a sign that is as plastically lightened as (and precisely because) it is reduced to a cell orphaned of conventional quality, is for Vermi to bring back to existential measure what would otherwise be an algid theorizing: it is doing, in fact, concretely scrutinizing, in a perfectly unemotional condition, bringing the surface back to the mental measure of the page, place of contaminated and radiating possibilities of meaning.”

In the following years, Vermi made emptiness the sphere of all-mental presences, of distilled tension, opening up to the use of gold and silver as colors of full symbolic significance.

In 1976 he made other experiences: from the magazine “L'Azzurro"”to the Manifesto del disimpegno [Disengagement Manifesto].

The exhibition will be accompanied in the autumn by two collateral exhibitions in the “Rooms”, dedicated to the reconstruction of Riccardo Guarneri and Paolo Masi's exhibition at the Cenobio in 1963 and to the figure of Rodofo Aricò, and by a series of meetings involving artists, art historians, gallery owners and collectors in a reflection on the figure of Vermi and the historical and artistic context in which he worked.