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PRESS DATA SHOW Title: the man who wanted to be a painter Giorgio Piacenza Dassu the man who became a painter art and friendship in Turin sixties Opening: Friday, October 2nd, 2009 18:00 Until November 7, 2009 The critic Michel Tapié in 1970 wrote: "Dassu existe et exister comme artiste ... emmen j'ai de ses oeuvres autour du monde, aux USA montrées et au Japon avec les Gutai, je le reproduis dans mes livres ... J'ai aussi connu M. Piacenza, dont je m'honore d'avoir eu l'amitié. Collectionneur audacieuses des oeuvres d'un "maintenant" qui était le sien, a su intégrer ces oeuvres d'art dans le cadre d'un ou l'art de vivre sa profondeur d'amitié confidentielle trouvait épanouissement ...".* [*Dassu exists and always will exist as an artist ... I have taken many of his works around the world, the USA and Japan shown with Gutai, I reproduce in my books ... I also know M. Piacenza, which I am proud to have had the friendship. Collector bold works of a "now" was his own, was able to integrate these works of art under one or the art of living one's depth confidential friendship was blossoming ...".]
Revolves around this phrase a story artists will be a period of experimentation and evolution of art ranging from the forties to late sixties. Giorgio Piacenza, born in 1910 industrial in the fashion industry, wanted to dedicate itself to painting, first as a student of Giulio Da Milano, then, by Franco Garelli known with art critic Michel Tapié and his entourage of artists that coalesce around the International Center of Aesthetic Research (I.C.A.R.), is interested in abstract art as patron and collector of paintings and sculptures of young Japanese artists, French, Germans and Italians. Thus a trial begins, leaving the oil painting and addressing new materials offered by the industry. For twenty years in his study of Superga conducts a search that starts from vinilpitture (vinylbased material) via
increasingly complex and technical experiences in the sixties produced a very elaborate works which he called "décollages”. Character world, but reclusive artist did not want to expose and therefore remain entirely free in its production and external to the market. They were then his friends Wilhelm Wessel, for the informal German school, Franco Garelli, painter, sculptor and ceramist and Franco Assetto, founder of the “Baroque ensembliste" to convince him to exhibit with them first in Lima, Peru, as a group Wegas, then in Biella (Italy). Piacenza appeared under the pseudonym Dassu (from Superga), as Dassu then made a personal exhibition in Genoa and so was presented by Tapié in Milan and the world. Dassu was not an amateur artist, his art cost so many forces in the profession, was in contact with many artists in the world with them informally and exchanged ideas, thoughts and techniques. In his life he had periods of enforced convalescence for serious diseases to which responded with a renewed creative anxiety. He died in 1969 and over the past two years he produced perhaps a thousand works. Destroyed much of his vast production because not completely satisfied, many works are reworked and reused in other frameworks. Now in its archives are still many works and this exhibition is strongly supported by his family and from the Galleria del Ponte, is a first time reading of a character not in the limelight by choice, but central to the artistic world in Turin and European. Re reading that is functional in a very broad knowledge of international art and cultural movement in the fifties and sixties of the twentieth century that today certainly deserves further attention. Email: galleriadelponte@fastwebnet.it OPENING HOURS: Tuesday to Saturday 10.0012.30; 16.0019.30