In the exhibition it is possible to find other artists who belong to the generations of the early “experimenters,” such as Livio Conta (Monclassico, 1939), present with a work created this year, and Hermann Josef Runggaldier (Ortisei, 1948), a sculptor capable of establishing a sense of strong intimacy with the observer of his works that investigate man’s relationship with his own way of being in modern times.
The tour can begin with the works of Adolf Vallazza (Ortisei, 1924), one of the first artists to depart from strict tradition: an acknowledged and celebrated master (he has also exhibited in Venice at Ca’ Pesaro, in Florence at Palazzo Medici-Riccardi, at the GAM in Turin and boasts a solo show at Palazzo dei Diamanti in Ferrara; moreover, several of his works are in collections around the world), Vallazza sees wood almost as a living being, and his research has undergone various phases and changes of direction, from a more markedly expressionist beginning through a transitional phase in which the figures were broken down, recalling the manner of the Cubists, to an abstraction that is nonetheless never entirely detached from reality and is endowed with a strong spiritual charge. In the exhibition it is possible to find other artists who belong to the generations of the early “experimenters,” such as Livio Conta (Monclassico, 1939), present with a work created this year, and Hermann Josef Runggaldier (Ortisei, 1948), a sculptor capable of establishing a sense of strong intimacy with the observer of his works that investigate man’s relationship with his own way of being in modern times.