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Anni sessanta
by Turi Simeti
2013
This catalogue was published on the occasion of the exhibition "Turi Simeti, Anni sessanta" held at Dep Art, Milan between June 20 and July 27, 2013.
Includes 'Centers of attraction, key points", a text by Alberto Zanchetta.
Born in 1929 in Sicily, Turi Simeti settled in Rome in 1958, where he regularly visited Alberto Burri's workshop. He started painting and made his debut amongst the artists of the Art Informel movement. Simeti creates in his works different types of tension on several formats, frequently relying on small-scale canvases to produce startling dimensions. Employing the motif of the oval, he has attempted to develop an irregular writing system that liberates the surface of the canvas from the principles of materiality, allowing nothing but silence.