Carlo Carchietti (1922-2002) - Optical

Carchietti Carlo, 1922-2002

" Optical "
1978 ca.

Signature in pencil at the bottom right " Carchietti"

Lithograph numbered 19/100 in pencil
Dry stamp of the publishing house
Cm 50x70

Sheet intact (no tears or holes), shows foxing outside the image (see photo) and slightly powdery, normal signs of use

Participant in the X National Quadriennale of Art, Situation of Art non-figurative, 1973

The Neapolitan artist, and adopted Roman, after figurative beginnings and then informal, in 1963 he was among the founders of the "Gruppo operativo r" ('r' stood for 'romano') in a fluid climate of associations among artists often of short duration, which had as common denominator the will to overcome the poetics of informality.
Carchietti in the mid-1960s was part of the 'Gruppo Strutture visive', together with other sculptors present in the National Library who also adhered to the gestalt tendency. Among these, like D'Eugenio and Vanarelli, Carchietti also devoted himself mainly to painting, not without episodic incursions into the field of sculpture, always coherent with the object of his research. In particular, in the transition from one field of artistic practice to another, the artist moves from the iteration of the optical representation of the "monade circolare" to "invasions spaziali" (Di Genova) with variations on the theme of the porthole and the circle.