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Roberto Crippa
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Pilote d'avion passionné d'acrobatie aérienne, représentant son pays dans des compétitions internationales, son monoplace tombe près de l'aéroport de Bresso, dans la province de Milan, le 19 mars 1972. Roberto Crippa trouve la mort dans cet accident, il avait à peine plus de cinquante ans. Il est inhumé au cimetière Monumental de Milan. En son hommage, cette orchidée.
"Les "Spirales" de Roberto Crippa portent la lumière, la liberté et l'automatisme gestuel typique du mouvement Informel." - Cristina Palmieri
"La peinture est une aventure, comme la vie de l'homme." - Roberto Crippa
"Pourquoi suis-je attaché aux traditions? Picasso ne doit rien à personne, comme ma peinture." - Roberto Crippa
"La recherche de la langue : c'est le problème fondamental pour un peintre." - Roberto Crippa
"L'arbre, la pomme, une jolie femme, je ne suis pas intéressé. Je suis plus intéressé par une toile de Fontana." - Roberto Crippa
"Dans l'oeuvre de Roberto Crippa, à quelques exceptions près, l'empreinte surréelle reste à l'intérieur d'une sensibilité qui transparaît, sans les traduire dans un langage explicite." - Giovanni Maria Accame
Notes of biography
The painter-sculptor Roberto Crippa was born in Milan in 1921. He studied at the Brera Art Academy in Milan where he was the fellow student of Aldo Carpi, d’Achille Funi and Carlo Carra. At the beginning of his career, like lots of young painters of his generation, Roberto Crippa was influenced by neo-cubism and was thus generalized. His first solo exhibition was at the Bergamini Gallery in Milan in 1947.
The artists was one of the first in Italy, to practice gestural painting, which he produced between 1948-1952 his sharply-colored spiral webs. In 1948, Crippa becomes one of the founding members of the Spacialist group, a group founded around Lucio Fontana, whose objective was to search for a new spatial representation, by technical means that was resolutely modern. From 1948 he participated regularly in group exhibitions and notably the Biennale of Venice.
Later he will devote himself to what the artist calls ‘Collages’, cut out forms that animate static surfaces. Roberto Crippa plays with the effects of matter on rough thick, surfaces, like wood or bark; the effects of plant elements or smooth or shiny metal, or transparent elements. His research naturally leads him towards sculpture and from 1956 he constructs numerous cut-out, welded metal works, of insects and monsters that are in line with the work of Chadwick. The artist is interested in movement in space; is he not he experienced airplane pilot who will represent Italy in the world aeronautic championship in 1971.
Paralleling his painting and sculpture, Roberto Crippa also experiment with graphic work (engravings, lithographs, illustrated books). In the middle of the 60’s, he moves towards monochrome reliefs, most often painted in tones of gray.
The artist dies in a plan crash in 1972 in Bresso. He was 50 years old.
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Some were created in lithographic technic, most are simple offset reproductions. They are many those who like collecting these rectangles of paper, monochrome or in games of colours, in matt paper or brilliant, with many words or almost dumb.
We are happy also to be able to greet, by this pages, mythical galleries as those of Denise René, Louis Carré, Claude Bernard, Berheim Jeune, Maeght, Pierre Loeb and others.
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* « Roberto Crippa - Catalogo generale delle opere », Vol. I, Ed. Galleria Pace, Milan, 2007 * « Roberto Crippa - Catalogo generale delle opere », Vol. II, Ed. Galleria Pace, Milan, 2013 All the complete worksBibliographic track and more
To read about the artist :
- « Roberto Crippa », Alain Jouffroy, Cat., Ed. Gallery One, Londres, 1962
- « Roberto Crippa », Alain Jouffroy, Ed. Galerie Pauli, Lausanne, 1963
- « Roberto Crippa », Ed. Haus Lange, Kunstmuseen, Krefeld, 1963
- « Roberto Crippa, Bilder und Skulpturen », Ed. Dortmund, 1965
- « Air pour Roberto Crippa », R. Lebel et F. Russoli, Ed. A. Iolas, Paris, 1967
- « Roberto Crippa » Cat., Gal. D'Arte Cortina, Milan, 1968
- « R. Crippa », Emilio Tadini, Cat. , Ed. Galerie Il Castello, Milan, 2000
- « Roberto Crippa », N. Colombo, Ed. Verona Ghelfi, Milan, 2001
- « Roberto Crippa », Ed. Biasutti & Biasutti Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, 2001
- « Totem Forma Simbolo », Daniel Abadie, collectif, Ed. Umberto Allemandi, 2011
To read from the artist :
- Voir les textes de l'artiste dans les 2 volumes du catalogue raisonné.
Website :
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Stamp by Roberto Crippa
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The publication of a postal stamp is often a homage paid by a nation to a place, an event, a remarkable cause or a character which count. The painters and other artists do not escape from this rule. Some are however "forgotten" of postal art. Here, gathered below (French or foreign), emitted stamps (206) or simple studies of stamp (224) in homage to the artists represented on our website. The first French stamp was emitted in 1849, England preceded us by ten years. There is often a share of voyage in this small form of shape paper. The stamp circulates, sails, flies away, it makes dream, then dream a little. M.C.
When the stamp is really emitted, the artist name is preceded of an asterisk (*). It is certain that we do not know each stamp emitted for such or such artist; do not hesitate with us to make known them!
Discover all the stamps
+ A tribute to...
See all the tribute pages...
A tribute to Roberto Crippa
Sorry this section is only available in french for now.
Pilote d'avion passionné d'acrobatie aérienne, représentant son pays dans des compétitions internationales, son monoplace tombe près de l'aéroport de Bresso, dans la province de Milan, le 19 mars 1972. Roberto Crippa trouve la mort dans cet accident, il avait à peine plus de cinquante ans. Il est inhumé au cimetière Monumental de Milan. En son hommage, cette orchidée.
"Les "Spirales" de Roberto Crippa portent la lumière, la liberté et l'automatisme gestuel typique du mouvement Informel." - Cristina Palmieri
"La peinture est une aventure, comme la vie de l'homme." - Roberto Crippa
"Pourquoi suis-je attaché aux traditions? Picasso ne doit rien à personne, comme ma peinture." - Roberto Crippa
"La recherche de la langue : c'est le problème fondamental pour un peintre." - Roberto Crippa
"L'arbre, la pomme, une jolie femme, je ne suis pas intéressé. Je suis plus intéressé par une toile de Fontana." - Roberto Crippa
"Dans l'oeuvre de Roberto Crippa, à quelques exceptions près, l'empreinte surréelle reste à l'intérieur d'une sensibilité qui transparaît, sans les traduire dans un langage explicite." - Giovanni Maria Accame
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