On View
Not on viewObject number2009.17
Fenice
Artist
Piero Dorazio
(Italian, 1927-2005)
Date1968
Mediumaquatint
Dimensionssheet: 25 1/2 × 19 3/4 in. (64.8 × 50.2 cm)
image: 11 3/4 × 9 3/4 in. (29.8 × 24.8 cm)
image: 11 3/4 × 9 3/4 in. (29.8 × 24.8 cm)
Credit LineBequest of Charlotte Collins from the Charles and Charlotte Collins Collection
Exhibition History"A Passion for Collecting: Prints of the 1960s and '70s from the Collins Collection," KIA Galleries 2&5 (Nov. 13, 2010 - Jan. 2, 2011).
"Drawn to Abstraction," Charles H. MacNider Museum of Art, Mason City, IA (June 24 - August 20, 2016).
"Drawn to Abstraction," Sardoni Art Gallery, Wilkes University, Wilkes-Barre, PA (August 25 - November 1, 2020).Label TextPiero Dorazio’s work is recognizable by either intense cross-hatching or luminous bands of overlapping color, which may be geometrically ruled or more lyrically traced, as in Fenice. This work offers a glimpse of sweeping, dancing, colored lines. Dorazio may have begun to paint these ribbons, which would dominate his subsequent work, during a stay in New York in the 1950s. Though exposure to American Abstract Expressionists may have reinforced his commitment to abstraction, Dorazio’s interest originated from his study of early-20th-century European traditions, including the dynamic movement and line of Italian Futurist painters. He is recognized as a father of Italian abstraction.
