Composition

Originally from Feltre, Tancredi Parmeggiani (1927-1964) enrolled in 1946 in the free nude course taught by Armando Pizzinato at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Venice. Moving to Rome in 1950, through Giulio Turcato, he came into contact with Piero Dorazio and Achille Perilli and with the activity of the gallery magazine l'Âge d'Or, which organized exhibitions and publications of the international avant-garde. Leaving the capital in 1951, he settled in Venice, where he met Peggy Guggenheim, who, captivated by his talent, put a studio at Palazzo Venier dei Leoni at his disposal and promoted his work in Italy and the United States. The central theme of Tancredi's painting, among the signers in 1952 of the Spatialism Manifesto, is infinite and dynamic space. His painting, anchored in radical abstraction, entrusts the depiction of a spatial infinity to the swirling gestures of rapid strokes or more or less irregular warps. "From the dot, I depart through graphics and instinctive colors for the conquest of new images of nature." In the work "Composition", the enchantment of the chromatic layering is striking, capable of eliciting secret correspondences with the external environment.