CORRADO CAGLI (Ancona, 1910 - Roma, 1976)
Ritmi Cellulari in chiave di giallo, 1949


Oil on paper mounted on canvas, 90 x 70 cm
The artwork Ritmi Cellulari in chiave di giallo (Cellular Rhythms in the key of yellow) is one of the works from the cycle of so-called 'cellular motifs', created at the same time as Corrado Cagli's studies on the fourth dimension and on 'direct imprints' between 1949 and 1950. For Cagli, this was a crucial moment because his work was part of the debate that was taking place in Italy in those years and related to the search for new languages in the sphere of Informal Art. His research was non-figurative but far removed from the Forma 1 experience, aimed at pursuing an unusual investigation of space and linked to the most recent discoveries of physics and non-Euclidean geometry grafted onto the recovery of Cubist spatiality and metaphysical themes. Between 1949 and 1950, the artist began to practise different techniques and linguistic forms in order to differentiate himself within Italian abstractionism. Initially linked to a certain geometric concretism deriving from Magnelli and Soldati, his work gradually opened up to the heuristic influences of northern European abstractionism, particularly Kandinsky and Klee;

Signed and dated lower left "Cagli '49";

Various labels on the back:
"Burri, Cagli, Fontana, Guttuso, Moreni, Morlotti - Sei pittori italiani dagli anni Quaranta ad oggi", Istituto italo-latino americano, Rome;
Venice Art Biennale, 1954;
"Aspetti dell'arte contemporanea - Omaggio a Cagli - Omaggio a Fontana - Omaggio a Quaroni", Architecture, Painting, Sculpture and Graphic Internazional Exhibition, L' Aquila;
Unreadable label of Galleria Comunale d'Arte Contemporanea, S. Ignazio Church;
"L'Informale in Italia", Galleria d'arte moderna, Bologna;
"Scuola Romana", Galleria d'arte moderna e contemporanea, Verona
Excellent conditions, frame, passepartout without glass