Galleria Fumagalli pays homage with a new solo show to Kenneth Noland, internationally recognized as one of the greatest representatives of American abstract painting “Color Field Painting”. An ambitious exhibition: four large-dimension masterpieces from the Stripes series are set up on the ground floor of the gallery, while in the lower and upper floors other works by Noland are on view together with those by artists who collaborate with the gallery. The works from the Sixties, which reflect a painting with a flat and defined layout, are exhibited for the first time to the public at Galleria Fumagalli, at the artist’s wish.

Since the mid-1950s, Kenneth Noland has painted contrasting color fields on the canvases that create optical vibrations and release a sort of expansive energy, producing an expansion of the work beyond the limit of its perimeter, for example the famous Circles series. Later he moved on to the Chevrons and Stripes series in which a radical painting prone to Minimalism was most evident. Afterwards the Shaped series, shaped and asymmetrical canvases, and the Plaids. Today he re-elaborates, with a more deconstructed painting, the new Circles series.

Noland’s most important exhibitions include his first solo show in Europe, which was hosted at Ariete Gallery in Milan in 1962, followed by the ones at the Museum of Contemporary Art at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, and at the Mexico City Museum of Modern Art, both in 1983. In 1986, he held a solo show at the Museum of Fine Arts in Bilbao, in Spain and in 1994, at the Museum of Fine Art in Houston, Texas, and at the Museum of Fine Arts in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. In 2001, a solo was organized at the Southern Vermont Art Centre in Manchester and in 2002 at the Naples Museum of Art, in Florida, and at the Farnsworth Art Museum, in Maine.