Enzo Spanò (1947) - Due del triangolo

The work belongs to Maestro Enzo Spanò, based in Reggio Calabria, where he paints daily at his 500-square-meter atelier.
Their atelier is a destination for numerous tourists and students of Architecture, Fine Arts, and the art high school.
From the 1980s to the present, he has created hundreds of paintings, following the same thread and style, but evolving and refining them according to personal and universal standards.
His paintings are at his studio; others, however, have been sold over the years, and still others are not 'saleable' to the master, as they are bound to him by a visceral relationship.
We are the agents who handle the publicity and sales on this site and at galleries and exhibitions throughout Europe. The artwork is shipped directly from the master.

In this work, executed with mixed media on a panel, the master used cardboard for the “profiles” for the first time, that is, figures technically expressed between abstraction and geometrism and symbolizing a face seen in profile. The inexpensive material used, resting on a uniformly colored base with acrylic paint, points to the emptiness and precariousness of modern life.
Spanò's painting seems to attain a certain symbolic charge that departs from the austere geometric concreteness of the early style, as it appears in some compositions.
Similar to theater backdrops inside which the depicted silhouettes remain suspended in a
"existential" dimension of waiting........Citation: Roberta Filardi

The geometric shape used—a quadrilateral, a triangle, a hexagon, and a rectangle—all colored variously—features lines that converge in the figure below, almost as if tying it together.

The paintings, on the theme of Profiles, are the first works that represent the overcoming.
of painting in all its fullness, and definitively excluding nuances and transparencies.
The third dimension is now obtained by stacking several layers of cardboard and
plywood. From now on, two-dimensional painting and three-dimensional sculpture will
they complete and arrange themselves to obtain a new formal balance under the aegis of the
geometric rigor and that of a mathematical equation

A brief sketch of the artist:

Enzo Spanò was born in Reggio Calabria on July 15, 1947.
Graduated in Architecture from the University of Reggio Calabria.
In 1974 he served as an assistant in architectural composition until 1979.
He taught geometric and architectural disciplines at institutes of higher education.
He was co-author of the guide On Foot Between the Costa Viola and the Aspromonte, Laruffa Editore – Reggio Calabria 2001. Author of the book La Via Annia Popilia in Calabria. Survey and reconstruction, Laruffa Editore, 2009.
Self-taught, he began his career as a painter in 1962, exhibiting in various solo shows and taking part in several national and international exhibitions.
In 1965, after moving to Rome, he immersed himself in the artistic milieu and was thus able to appreciate the works of major Italian and foreign contemporary painters. A few years later he returned to Reggio Calabria, where he still lives and works.
Enzo Spanò, a unique artist for his expressiveness conceived within a rigorous geometric framework that reveals his reflective nature, has cultivated painting for many years, approaching an aniconic language that emerges from the revolutions of Dutch Neoplasticism and German Functionalism of the twentieth century, and then continuing the dense network of experiences that has characterized much of European aniconic expression from the early twentieth century to today, marked by very strong theoretical connotations and open debates between pure concretism and lyrical abstraction.
In her works, to this day, the artist arrives at a compositional structure centered on balance and order, but the color quivers with the chromatic quality imparted to the surfaces and to the geometric shapes depicted.
The expressiveness of Enzo Spanò finds its rationale in the geometry of balance, which shapes the pictorial surfaces of his works, but this logic now seems to open up to fanciful melodies within a score of geometric signs, modulated in rhythmic cadences, almost musical, that convey a poetic and imaginative feeling. Orthogonal lines or diagonal paths indicate the directions of the plane, rewrite the horizons and the boundaries of the space of the image, in which minimal elements reside, stylized human forms in dialogue with pure geometric elements—squares, rectangles, triangles, cubes—that create a spatial mapping, prompting the observer to retrace the logos of the pictorial construct.

The Exhibitions
Personal
De Nava Library, Reggio Calabria – 1964
Gallery 'L’Arco', Macerata – 1965.
Ridotto of the Municipal Theatre, Reggio Calabria – 1970
Gallery “Morabito”, Reggio Calabria - 1984
Gallery “Il Triangolo”, Cosenza – 2011
House of Culture 'Leonida Repaci', Palmi (RC) – 2013
Gallery "Vertigo Arte", Cosenza – 2017
Vittorio Emanuele Theatre of Messina-2023
Collettive
Villa San Giovanni Prize 1963 and 1964
M.A.C.EM. Palazzo delle Esposizioni – Rome 1964
Lecce Prize 1965 and 1966
B. Pendini Prize – Padua 1965
G.B. Salvi Prize – Sassoferrato 1966
Graphic Art Triennial – Civitanova Marche 1966
Limen Arte International Prize – Palazzo Gagliardi – Vibo Valentia 2012
La Forma Eletta Award – Nicosia 2012
Rotary Art 2013 – Palazzo Arnone – Cosenza
Rotary Art 2013 – Maca di Acri (CS)
Rotary Arte 2013 – Circolo Canottieri – Naples
Calabrian Artists at the Castle – Corigliano Calabro 2015
42nd Sulmona Prize, Sulmona 2015
Generations in Comparison 2015, Genzano di Roma
48th Sulmona Prize - 2021
Chiaravalle Centrale National Prize 2022
Forms on the Surface, Aniconic Experiences in Contemporary Calabria — Reggio Calabria, 2023
Ars Et Caritas - Orizzonte7 Association - APS Bovalino (Reggio Calabria) 2023-2024
Museums, Art Galleries, Public Institutions
Art Gallery of the Vittorio Emanuele Theatre in Messina
Musaba Museum – Mammola (RC)
International Museum of Graphic Arts “MIG” – Castronuovo di Sant’Andrea (PZ)
House of Culture “Leonida Repaci” – Palmi (RC)
Valentianum Monumental Complex – Chamber of Commerce – Vibo Valentia.
San Paolo Museum of Reggio Calabria.
Civic Museum of Taverna (CZ)
National Library – Cosenza