The Metacosa is an Italian art movement founded in the late 1970s.[1][2][3]

The Metacosa
Giuseppe Bartolini, Giuseppe Biagi (standing), Sandro Luporini, Gianfranco Ferroni, Giorgio Tonelli and Lino Mannocci in the Milanese studio of Ferroni, 1983.

History

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The group was formed by Giuseppe Bartolini, Giuseppe Biagi, Gianfranco Ferroni, Bernardino Luino, Sandro Luporini, Lino Mannocci and Giorgio Tonelli.

The first exhibition was held in 1979 in Brescia, with the presentation of the critic Roberto Tassi who followed the activity also in the subsequent exhibitions. Other exhibitions were held in Milan, Viareggio, Bergamo and Vicenza.

The Metacosa has a figurative matrix of poetic intensity with accurate and calculated pictorial research. During his first exhibition in Brescia in 1979, Roberto Tassi wrote: "Every painter in this group has its own light, the quality and substance of light being different in each of them, the coincidence of poetics does not involve coincidence of style or poetry The fascination and the truth of the exhibition is precisely in this, in joining a common idea, and almost philosophy, painting, very different artists."

In 2004, at the Oberdan Square in Milan, the exhibition Methanoid Phenomenology was held by Philippe Daverio.[4]

References

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  1. ^ Italy), Palazzo Paolina (Viareggio (1983). La Metacosa: Giuseppe Bartolini, Giuseppe Biagi, Gianfranco Ferroni ... Giorgio Tonelli [mostra, Viareggio, Palazzo Paolina, 18 agosto-4 settembre 1983] (in Italian). CEDIS.
  2. ^ Metacosa: giuseppe bartolini, giuseppe biagi, gianfranco ferroni, bernardino luino, sandro luporini, lino mannocci, giorgio tonelli. PALAZZO PAOLINA. 1983.
  3. ^ Sandro Luporini: metafisica del quotidiano ; Immagini, parole e note nell'opera di Sandro Luporini : una raccolta di materiali e testi sul teatro di Giorgio Gaber e Sandro Luporini (in Italian). ADAC. 2005.
  4. ^ Daverio, Philippe (2004). Fenomenologia della Metacosa: 7 artisti nel 1979 a Milano e 25 anni dopo ; [Giuseppe Bartolini, Giuseppe Biagi, Gianfranco Ferroni, Bernardino Luino, Sandro Luporini, Lino Mannocci, Giorgio Tonelli] (in Italian). Communicare editore.