Enzo Cacciola (*1945): Untitled

Artist
Enzo Cacciola (*1945)
 
Title
Untitled
 
Medium
Silkscreen print
 
Material
Cardboard
 
Dimensions
19.5 x 20 cm
 
Editor
Edition Panderma, Basel
 
Year
1966, published 1977
 
Signature
Signed in pencil
 
Provenance
Edition Panderma, Carl Laszlo, Basel
Galerie von Bartha, Basel
Private Collection, Basel
 
Condition / Restauration
Mint archival condition
 
Biography
Enzo Cacciola (born Arenzano, near Genoa, 1945) is an Italian painter and one of the leading exponents of Pittura Analitica — the Italian movement of Analytical Painting that, in the 1970s, turned the act of painting back on its own constituent elements: surface, support, material and process. He lives and works in Rocca Grimalda, Piedmont.
 
Cacciola held his first solo exhibition in 1971 at the Galleria La Bertesca in Turin. He became internationally known for his radical use of cement and concrete as a painting medium, applying the raw material directly to the canvas so that the work records its own making — the drying, cracking and physical weight of the substance becoming the true subject. In June 1975 he took part in the seminal exhibition Analytische Malerei / Analytical Painting, curated by Klaus Honnef and Catherine Millet, and in 1977 he was included in Documenta 6 in Kassel alongside the other protagonists of Pittura Analitica. From 1979 he exhibited internationally, in Washington D.C., Mexico City and Panama City, and in 1982 took part in Short Memory Painting at the Palazzo della Permanente in Milan.
 
This early signed silkscreen, issued by Carl Laszlo's celebrated Edition Panderma in Basel, translates Cacciola's rigorous, process-based investigation of surface and structure into the graphic medium.