This volume traces, through a series of works from important Italian and foreign museums, the artistic career of Turi Simeti (Alcamo, 1929), a protagonist of that season of international scope that, at the beginning of the 1960s, identified the new aesthetic horizon of contemporaneity in the reduction of the work to its elementary constructs. As an exponent of the practice of the so-called shaped canvases, Simeti had already developed his own unmistakable formal style in that decade, which found in the motif of the projecting oval shape the cue to reflect on the basic codes of painting: colour brought back to its monochrome purity, the feeling of space, modelled in a different way by the protrusion of the ovals, and the ability of the works to dialogue with the environment in which they are inserted.

The volume includes a text by Sergio Troisi and a critical anthology, followed by biographical apparatus.