Emerging '82 - 10 -…a' l'Ouest rien de nouveau

This work belongs to the Emerging series produced by Vedova in the early 1980s after a trip to Mexico, where he found inspiration in the vast spaces of Central America for large-scale works of explosive colour. As attested by his early works, the selftaught artist, an heir to the long tradition of Veneto painting, took the great 16thcentury masters as his models and especially Tintoretto, whose approach to composition and the use of light he studied closely. This was followed by a shift towards abstraction, when his painting became an almost theatrical arrangement of rapid pictorial gestures in space in constant relation to light. The works of the 1980s, including the one exhibited here, document his return to colour after the dichromatic works of the Plurimi binari series. (Transl. by Paul Metcalfe per Scriptum, Roma)