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Conrad Marca-Relli
From Italian parents, Conrad Marca-Relli is born in Boston (USA) in 1913. He belongs to the first generation of American abstract expressionism of the New York School (Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, etc.), which is one of the most important movements in the public eye of the post-war period. Painter in a first place, self-taught artist, he is considered a master of collage. He spends 4 years in the Army before settling in New York, travels frequently in Europe, the United...
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Biography of Conrad Marca-Relli
From Italian parents, Conrad Marca-Relli is born in Boston (USA) in 1913. He belongs to the first generation of American abstract expressionism of the New York School (Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, etc.), which is one of the most important movements in the public eye of the post-war period. Painter in a first place, self-taught artist, he is considered a master of collage. He spends 4 years in the Army before settling in New York, travels frequently in Europe, the United States, Mexico. In the late '40s (and early 50s), the artist is actively involved in the art field of the avant-garde of Greenwich Village. His first solo exhibition is held in New York in 1948. The Surrealist painter Giorgio de Chirico inspires his debuts. Later on, Marca-Relli combines oil paint and collage, using materials such as vinyl or aluminum. Works in color often of great intensity, the collage-paintings of large size in the early 50s, are characterized by abstract figures or barely suggested. In the 1960s the artist experiments with various materials to obtain an industrial effect. Focusing on the three-dimensional, forms are materialized using nail holes (painted or actual). Over time, the collages of Marca-Relli develop an abstract simplicity that enhance black and dark color and isolated rectangular shapes on neutral backgrounds. The Whitney Museum of Modern Art holds a retrospective of his work in 1967. In the 50's, Conrad Marca-Relli teaches at Yale University and the University of Berkeley (California). The artist lives the last years of his life in Italy, he dies in Parma in 2000.
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Gallery Joan Prats
1978 Offset poster published for the exhibition of the artist in the Gallery Joan Prats, Barcelona. Without
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1962 Original monotype on canvas, signed in bottom on the left. Certificate of authenticity of the Marca-Relli ArchivesCatalogue(s) raisonné(s)
Catalogue(s) raisonné(s)
* « Conrad Marca-Relli », David Anfam, Magdalena Dabrowski et Marco Vallora, Museum S.r.l./Bruno Alfieri Ed., Milan, 2008 All the "catalogues raisonnés"Bibliographic track & more
To read from or about the artist :
* « Marca-Relli », Arnason, H. Harvard, Ed. H. N. Abrams, New York, 1963* « Conrad Marca-Relli », Daniel Giralt-Miracle, Ed. Polígrafa, Barcelone, 1976
* « Marca-Relli 1976-1978 », Santiago Amon, Ed. Galeria Joan Prats, Barcelone, 1978
* « Conrad Marca-Relli », Luca Massimo Barbero, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Ed. Electa, Milan, 1998
* « Conrad Marca-Relli », Luca Massimo Barbero, Ed. University of Washington Press, 1999
* « New York School Abstract Expressionists Artists », Marika Herskovic, New York School Press, 2000
* « Marca-Relli, l'amico americano - sintonie e dissonanze con Afro e Burri », Marco Vallora, Ed. Galleria d'Arte Niccoli, Parme, 2002
* « Conrad Marca-Relli », David Anfam, Bruno Alfieri Ed., Milan, 2008
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No stamp made.Art movements
- + ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM / 1942-1957 / Archile Gorky, Mark Rothko, Clifford Still, Adolph Gottlieb, Franz Kline, Ad Reinhardt, Philip Guston, Kenneth Noland, etc.
- + NON FIGURATIVE ART / 1942-1975 / Jean Bertholle, André Beaudin, Jeannie Dumesnil, Hanna Ben-Dov, Elvire Jan, Charles Lapicque, etc.
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