Adachiara Zevi - Piero Dorazio - 1985

Piero Dorazio
Edited by Adachiara Zevi

In 1952, after the collective experience of Forma 1—characterized by polemical fervor against twentieth-century painting and Neorealist rhetoric, in an ideal connection with the European avant-gardes and with the less known but more radical Age d'Or—Dorazio began his autonomous research on form and color.
Far from geometric abstraction, from any sort of naturalism, marginal to the informal poetics dominating the fifties, he directed his work toward the perceptual effects that color impresses on the surface in a spatial dynamic that overcomes its rigid two-dimensionality, according to a vision of abstraction that is enriched by the pictorial experience of modern tradition. A coherent and rigorous search that remains outside the artistic expressions that, starting in the sixties, diverge from the picture.
It was precisely then that Dorazio found his own original signature in the minimal formal structure of the color band, which lends itself to a multiplicity of outcomes that chase one another, develop, and surpass one another.
A great polemicist, a critic of the counter-current, a versatile practitioner, he has from a very young age lived a cosmopolitan dimension, traveling and exhibiting in Europe and America, where he taught at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia from 1960 to 1970.

The present monograph includes an introductory essay by the curator, an unpublished interview, writings by the artist, a wide, reasoned critical anthology, biography and general bibliography, and color reproductions of the works.

The volume is presented in excellent overall condition. Cover with slight signs of use. Softcover firmly bound. Interior pages clean with no stains, creases, or underlinings. An excellent copy for collection/consultation."