The catalog documents the solo exhibition “12 Works” by Kenneth Noland – one of the masters of American abstract art – held at Galleria Fumagalli in Bergamo in November 2005/January 2006. The exhibition, which focused on his 1970s creative period, marked by the Irregular shape and Shaped series, presented large canvases in which Noland explores the non-rectilinear geometric shape, complimenting it with an intense and very personal use of color. The book illustrates the works on view and is accompanied by a critical essay by Franco Fanelli entitled “Abstract Art as Frontier Painting”.