Galleria Fumagalli presents the work of four masters of Italian art: Giovanni Anselmo, Enrico Castellani, Maurizio Mochetti and Maurizio Nannucci, curated by Annamaria Maggi. The project comes from the idea of showing how, since the 1960s, the theoretical and practical awareness that overwhelmed painting and sculpture has evolved from a concept of space that was still closed – although already three-dimensional with Lucio Fontana, who identified the subsequent developments – to a concept of occupation of the space. The research addresses an open dimension, penetrates other places through forms, colours, matter and actions. A journey in time which has led artistic language to acquire a new language and a new form, at times defying the rules of mathematics and physics, making visible the invisible and light what is heavy. New energies and dynamics, at times disorienting because they probe the limits of our perception and highlight processes which otherwise are not visible, run through this research.

The energies that act no longer retain in a codification relative to the existing conditions the concepts of time and space; space becomes fluid and variable, so that matter floats, light shines and is materialized. Enrico Castellani, a few months after having received the “Praemium Imperiale” for painting in Tokyo, presents, in four works, from the 1960s to the present, his constant and analytical research on light, monochrome and on the changing repetition of solids and hollows produced by rhythmic extroversions of the canvas; Giovanni Anselmo, one of the undisputed representatives of Arte Povera, places alongside two works of the late 1970s and late 1980s, probing linguistic elements such as weight, gravity and energy, the work Particolare of 1972 which, through the projection of the word “particular” in the physical and aerial space of the gallery, interacts directly with the visitor, investigating the infinite concept of open space.

Maurizio Nannucci, constantly in search of a language that is not only visual, but also verbal and symbolic, offers a historical work, Colours Red, Blue, Yellow, White, Green from 1969, emblematic of his study not only on light but also on colour, and two recent works Hear, 2005 and Everything might be different, 2010; Maurizio Mochetti, whose interest has always been oriented towards light understood in its physical nature and in the concrete and conceptual reversal of the object represented, presents Palle from 1988 and Aereo Razzo Bachem Natter BA 349 B.1944 con punti laser of 1976, two works which show not only a certain defunctionalisation of the object, but also a reflection on the instability of perceptions and on the immobility of movement crossed by light.