Between the Earthly and the Otherworldly

Fausto Melotti
I Sette Savi (The Seven Sages), 1960 (1969)
Plaster
7 parts, each 229 x 53.5 x 31 cm / 90 1/8 x 21 1/8 x 12 1/4 in
© Fondazione Fausto Melotti, Milano
Courtesy Fondazione Fausto Melotti, Milano and Hauser & Wirth

Hauser & Wirth to present an exhibition dedicated to the seminal Italian post-war sculptor, painter, and poet Fausto Melotti.

Considered a pioneer of Italian art, Fausto Melotti used highly personal, yet universally accessible artistic language to express the full range of emotional experiences. He lived through the horrors of the Second World War, and turned to Renaissance principles of harmony, order, geometry, and musical structure, to metabolize the wartime devastation in his work. 

On view from September 13th through October 27th, The Deserted City exhibition presents iconic works of Melotti in the context of his fellow Italian artistic titans. Seven Sages, Melotti’s most iconic works from the 1940s through the mid-1980s take the center place, around which the exhibition unfolds. The Deserted City includes a rare self-portrait of Melotti, ceramics, sculptures and monumental constructions. Discover Melotti’s decades' long pursuit of multi disciplinal artistic expression, combining sculptural mastery and poetic sensibility, in Hauser & Wirth.

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Hauser & Wirth将举办一场展览关于重要意大利战后雕塑家、画家和诗人Fausto Melotti。
 
Fausto Melotti被认为是意大利艺术的先驱，其使用高度个性化、但普遍可及的艺术语言来表达各种情感体验。他经历了第二次世界大战的恐怖，但转向文艺复兴时期的和谐、秩序、几何和音乐结构等原则，以减少他作品中体现的战时破坏。
 
从9月13日到10月27日，The Deserted City展览展示了Melotti在他作为意大利艺术巨匠背景下的标志性作品。 Seven Sages是Melotti从20世纪40年代到80年代中期最具代表性的作品，展览围绕其展开。The Deserted City展包括罕见的Melotti自画像、陶瓷、雕塑和纪念性建筑。在Hauser & Wirth，结合雕塑精神和诗意感受，探索Melotti数十年来对多学科艺术表达的追求吧。