Ignazio Moncada (1932-2012) - Linee

Ignazio Moncada, seventh son of Ugo Moncada, prince of Paternò and of Giovanna Lanza Branciforte dei principi di Trabia, stayed in Paris, where in 1960 he held his first solo show at the Devray gallery, then in Brussels, Rome and finally (from 1973) in Milan.
In the second half of the 1960s Moncada engaged more openly with the languages of a non-figurative tradition of geometrizing ancestry. His elaborations are not subject to the rigour of a vocabulary based on absolute rules, but play with the possibilities of a free geometry to determine approaches, enlargements, lateral movements. After an initial tonal configuration of nearly pop, there followed explorations that of that era bear the marks of a “psychedelic” fantasy, to develop a more pronounced dialectic between construction and rhythm, between harmony and disharmony, between geometry and movement, as differently recognized when writing about his work, between 1969 and 1972, by Cesare Vivaldi, Enrico Crispolti, Angelo Maria Ripellino.
Stefano Malatesta, Moncada, the color of passions, in La Repubblica, January 7, 2002. URL consulted September 19, 2014.
Agata Polizzi, L'espansione del colore di Moncada alle Fam di Agrigento, in Giornale di Sicilia, June 2, 2014. URL consulted September 19, 2014.
Sergio Troisi, Moncada, the nomadic painter who invented Pont Art, in La Repubblica, May 22, 2014. URL consulted September 19, 2014.
Sebastiano Grasso, Ignazio Moncada, the painter who colored Milan’s scaffolding, in Corriere della Sera, October 10, 2012. URL consulted September 19, 2014.
Ignazio Moncada has died, the artist of Pont Art, in La Repubblica, October 9, 2012. URL consulted September 19, 2014.
Diana Giusi, The last “bridge” of Ignazio Moncada, on ilgiornaledellarte.com, October 19, 2012. URL consulted March 24, 2015.
Ignazio Moncada I caldi pomeriggi nei giardini di Polifemo, on triennale.it. URL consulted September 19, 2014 (archived from the original URL December 21, 2013).
Biblioteca, on palazzobranciforte.it. URL consulted May 23, 2014 (archived from the original URL May 23, 2014).
Archivio Ignazio Moncada, on ignaziomoncada.org.