{"id":9073,"date":"2020-07-01T08:10:36","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T06:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.carlovirgilio.it\/?post_type=opera&p=9073"},"modified":"2022-03-04T17:51:01","modified_gmt":"2022-03-04T15:51:01","slug":"mirko-basaldella-portrait-of-leoncillo","status":"publish","type":"opera","link":"https:\/\/www.carlovirgilio.it\/en\/opera\/mirko-basaldella-portrait-of-leoncillo\/","title":{"rendered":"Mirko (Basaldella)\u00a0– Portrait\u00a0of Leoncillo"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Mirko:<\/a><\/p>\n

Mirko (Basaldella)<\/p>\n

Udine 1910-Cambridge, Mass. 1969<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Portrait<\/span><\/i>\u00a0of Leoncillo\u00a0<\/span><\/i>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

1953\/54<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Iron<\/span>, 51,5\u00a0<\/span>\u00d7<\/span>\u00a024,5\u00a0<\/span>\u00d7<\/span>\u00a018\u00a0<\/span>cm\u00a0<\/span>(<\/span>with the\u00a0<\/span>plynth<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>h\u00a0<\/span>67<\/span>\u00a0cm<\/span>)<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Exhibition label on the back:<\/span>\u00a0\u201c33\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Provenance<\/span>: Rome, private\u00a0<\/span>collection<\/span>; Rome, Ovidio\u00a0<\/span>Jacorossi<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>collection<\/span>; Rome, private\u00a0<\/span>collection<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Bibliogra<\/span>phy<\/span>: Barbara Tiberi, in\u00a0<\/span>Dal Simbolismo all\u2019Astrazione. Il primo Novecento a Roma nella collezione\u00a0<\/span><\/i>Jacorossi<\/span><\/i>,\u00a0<\/span>edited<\/span>\u00a0by<\/span>\u00a0Enrico\u00a0<\/span>Crispolti<\/span>, Rom<\/span>e<\/span>\u00a02017, pp. 140-141.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Exhibition<\/span>:\u00a0<\/span>Rome,\u00a0<\/span>Musia<\/span>,\u00a0<\/span>1 dicembre<\/span>\u00a02017 – 1 gennaio 2018, \u200b<\/span>Dal Simbolismo all\u2019astrazione. Il primo Novecento a Roma nella Collezione\u00a0<\/span><\/i>Jacorossi<\/span><\/i>\u200b.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Archived work by Archivio\u00a0<\/span>Cagli<\/span>-Mirko, Rome, n. 00007, dated 26 October 2017.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The work belongs to the highly intense series of sculptures made by Mirko between 1953 and \u201858 and exhibited in many salient shows, from the 1954 Venice Biennale to the collective\u00a0<\/span>The New Decade<\/span><\/i>\u200b held at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Probably among the first of the series, it portrays his friend\u00a0<\/span>Leoncillo<\/span>\u00a0Leonardi, also a sculptor, whom he met through the friendship they had in common with Corrado\u00a0<\/span>Cagli<\/span>, in the mid-thirties in Rome.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It is an imaginative and mystical portrait created by the cutting out,\u00a0<\/span>extroflection<\/span>\u00a0and inflection of a\u00a0 sheet of iron (in other cases he used copper and brass), a \u201cstructural\u201d portrait where the classical\u00a0<\/span>modelling of the material is substituted by its dilation on different spatial levels to direct the space itself into the shape.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Already echoing through this portrait are the concepts that the artist formulated in 1955:\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cPlastic language can have a similar meaning and function in society. Like words, shapes acquire their own meaning, born of the\u00a0<\/span><\/i>particular feeling<\/span><\/i>\u00a0that they evoke, as they are organised in frameworks or systems and strengthened in their emotive possibility. Thought is no longer formed of words because the elements that determine it are lines and\u00a0<\/span><\/i>planes;<\/span><\/i>\u00a0conflicts of shape, harmonies of sour and sweet, the sense of escape, hurry or pacification. Full and empty become the dominant motive like good and evil,\u00a0<\/span><\/i>black<\/span><\/i>\u00a0and white, conscious and subconscious. Plastic language, like any thought expressed, has its own\u00a0<\/span><\/i>particular coordinated<\/span><\/i>\u00a0logic with deep human roots, transmitting ideas, evoking sentiments, recounting the lives of things and men. But artists today\u00a0<\/span><\/i>don\u2019t<\/span><\/i>\u00a0limit themselves to narrating the life of the surrounding world through visual perception, they want to know the laws and reasons that govern and determine those appearances. Even the cognizance of current scientific achievements gives a\u00a0<\/span><\/i>particular character<\/span><\/i>\u00a0to the modern poetic by lighting up unknown worlds, opening the field to new inquiries. Today\u2019s various artistic trends and their character of modernity belong to theory and specialisation. The poetic side is something else, tied to deeper and more distant motives, moved by impulses of the subconscious primordial being.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/i>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Giuseppe Briguglio<\/span><\/i>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Mirko (Basaldella) Udine 1910-Cambridge, Mass. 1969\u00a0 Portrait\u00a0of Leoncillo\u00a0\u00a0 1953\/54\u00a0 Iron, 51,5\u00a0\u00d7\u00a024,5\u00a0\u00d7\u00a018\u00a0cm\u00a0(with the\u00a0plynth\u00a0h\u00a067\u00a0cm)\u00a0 Exhibition label on the back:\u00a0\u201c33\u201d\u00a0 Provenance: Rome, private\u00a0collection; Rome, Ovidio\u00a0Jacorossi\u00a0collection; Rome, private\u00a0collection\u00a0 Bibliography: Barbara Tiberi, in\u00a0Dal Simbolismo all\u2019Astrazione. Il primo Novecento a Roma nella collezione\u00a0Jacorossi,\u00a0edited\u00a0by\u00a0Enrico\u00a0Crispolti, Rome\u00a02017, pp. 140-141.\u00a0\u00a0 Exhibition:\u00a0Rome,\u00a0Musia,\u00a01 dicembre\u00a02017 – 1 gennaio 2018, \u200bDal Simbolismo all\u2019astrazione. Il primo Novecento a Roma nella…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":9039,"template":"","autore":[369],"tipologia_opera":[81],"ambito_opera":[84],"data_opera":[258],"disponibilita_opera":[],"titolo_mostra":[362],"tag_mostra":[363],"class_list":["post-9073","opera","type-opera","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","autore-mirko-basaldella-1910-1969","tipologia_opera-opere-mostre-en","ambito_opera-sculpture-en","data_opera-258","titolo_mostra-law-digital-summer-2020","tag_mostra-law-digital-summer-2020","description-off"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlovirgilio.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/opera\/9073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlovirgilio.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/opera"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlovirgilio.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/opera"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlovirgilio.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlovirgilio.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"autore","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlovirgilio.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/autore?post=9073"},{"taxonomy":"tipologia_opera","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlovirgilio.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tipologia_opera?post=9073"},{"taxonomy":"ambito_opera","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlovirgilio.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ambito_opera?post=9073"},{"taxonomy":"data_opera","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlovirgilio.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/data_opera?post=9073"},{"taxonomy":"disponibilita_opera","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlovirgilio.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disponibilita_opera?post=9073"},{"taxonomy":"titolo_mostra","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlovirgilio.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/titolo_mostra?post=9073"},{"taxonomy":"tag_mostra","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlovirgilio.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tag_mostra?post=9073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}