Oscar Piattella (1932) - Piccolo Rosso 5

Very rare historical work by the master Oscar Piattella (1932 – 2023), from 1959, mixed media on canvas 24 x 40 cm. There are pigment losses in the upper right corner, but the work as a whole remains fluid to the eye.

It would deserve a small restoration given the importance of the piece.

Oscar Piattella (1932 – 2023)
Graduated in Urbino in 1955 in Pharmacy, Oscar Piattella was among the protagonists of the Italian artistic renewal of the 1950s, together with other figures such as Arnaldo and Giò Pomodoro, Giuliano Vangi, Loreno Sguanci, Nanni Valentini, with whom he was bound by an intense friendship. From figurative beginnings, he shifted his research toward the Informal movement, which at that time was beginning to spread in Europe. By the second half of the 1950s he had already begun to exhibit in prestigious shows in Italy and abroad, meeting artists of the caliber of Alberto Burri, Lucio Fontana, Enrico Castellani. In 1958, Franco Russoli, then director of the Pinacoteca di Brera, organized a show of his at the Galleria L’Ariete in Milan. His work developed, throughout the 1960s and 1970s, in a completely autonomous and solitary manner but never detached from the contemporary European research to which Piattella looked with utmost attention.

There were many participations in international events and solo exhibitions, including in Milan (1958, 1968, 1973, 1975), Rome (1960, 1970, 1971, 1978, 1980, 1987), Turin (1973), Urbino (1987, 2017), Bologna (1988), Paris (1989, 1997), Perugia (1991, 2019), Taiwan (1997, 2000), Genoa (1998), Pesaro (1982, 2002, 2020), Tours (2006), Gubbio (2010), Tournay (2013), Monte Vidon Corrado (2016).