Magnelli - Painting Reinvented

Exhibition Catalogue Magnelli and Painting Reinvented, presented at the Galerie Boulakia, Paris (19 october - 7 december 2017).

The catalohue presents Alberto Magnelli's paintings dating from the 1920s to 1930, completed in a style which the artist described as 'painting reinvented'.
 
This period from the 1920s to 1930 represented a key phase in Magnelli's career. During the course of the previous five years, he discovered the Parisian avant-garde art scene, which was the inspiration behind his first abstract works. He moved to Paris in 1932 to escape from the fascist regime in Italy and made the definitive move to abstraction with 'Pietre' (Stones).
 
In France, his paintings were often grouped with the 1920s 'Return to order' movement, whilst in Italy they were associated with De Chirico's and Carrà's rejection of Modernism. However, the artist emphasized that whilst his works from this period were figurative in style, they were no throwback to the past, but examples of 'painting reinvented'.