Homage
to
Cesi Amoretti
edited by
Marisa Fogliarini
photo by M. Fogliarini (Arma di Taggia December 27th 2008 - January 2th 2009)
translation by Josie Ciccarelli
Cesi Amoretti’s retrospective show titled “Looking for the light”, edited by Fulvio Cervini and Giancarlo Manco, has taken place at the center located at Villa Borselli in Arma di Taggia (IM) from December 13th to January 31st 2009, as part of the event titled “Art in the Villa” .
In that occasion I have been able to photograph the works that I introduce in the section of my site that I devote to the memory of this important artist my fellow citizen.
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Cesi Amoretti was born in Sanremo (IM) in 1929 where she lived all her life except for a period, from 1950 to 1958, when she moved and lived in Milan.
Cesi’s work initially placed itself within the circle of a neo-figuration directed towards the geometric decomposition of the nature datum, for then approaching the action painting.
Cesi Amoretti:
"A game of chess",
1956
oil on canvas 19,68"x15,74" - private collection
Cesi Amoretti: "Sails", 1957
oil on canvas 19,68"x27,55" - private collection
Cesi Amoretti: "Second telephone", 1968
oil on canvas 23,62"x19,68" - private collection
After the meeting with Antonio Calderara and Michel Seuphor, Cesi found her own congenial and original dimension in an abstractionism from the definite minimalist connotation in which elementary figures, circles and squares, become protagonists of her compositions, just crossed by essential graphic signs.
Cesi Amoretti: "Yellow function", 1972
acrylic on canvas 11,81"x11,81" - private collection
Cesi Amoretti: "Complementary virtual curves", 1975
oil on canvas 42,24"x23,62" - private collection
In the late seventies she abandoned the great homogeneous campitures for a more faceted plot of open orthogonal structures, that favoured new aggregations of figures. It was in this period that the light gained an increasing importance in the definition of the forms, and her abstractionism obtained an ever increasing lyric inclination.
Between the end of the seventies and the beginning of the eighties, Cesi devoted herself to graphics and her "artist's books." From 1977 to 1985 she also became involved in some performances.
Cesi Amoretti: "Metropolis" 1980
oil and graphite on wood 27,55"x27,55" -private collection
Towards the end of the eighties she moved from the "minimal perceptions" to the "intimate perceptions", or "Mediterranean", which characterized the production of the last few years, in which geometry becomes light’s refraction system, diurnal or nocturnal, where allusions are made to the atmospheric, maritime or celestial nature.
Cesi Amoretti: "First sun", 1988
olio su tela 39,37"x59,05" - private collection
Cesi Amoretti: "The tub of the red fishes", 1989
olio su tela 27,55"x27,55" - private collection
Cesi Amoretti: "The return of the sails", 1990
olio su tela 27,55"x39,37" - private collection
Cesi Amoretti: "Flowers of sweet water", 1990
trittico - oil on canvas 31,49"-19,68"-25,59"x59,05" - private collection
Cesi Amoretti: "Plain lawns", 1992
oil on canvas 39,37"x27,55" - private collection
Cesi Amoretti: "The wood of the rubies", 1992
oil on canvas 27,55"x19,68" - private collection
Cesi Amoretti: "The lunar aquarius for Montecarlo", 1992
oil on canvas 39,37"x59,05" - private collection
Cesi Amoretti: "The S. Giovanni's road", 1993
oil on canvas 31,49"x47,24" - private collection
Cesi Amoretti: "With lights off", 1993
oil on canvas 27,55"x27,55" - private collection
Cesi Amoretti: "The saracen veliero", 1994
oil on canvas 19,68"x19,68" - private collection
Cesi Amoretti: "Night time flight", 1994
oil on canvas 15,74x19,68" - private collection
Cesi Amoretti: "The brushwood n°. 2", 1994
oil on canvas 31,49"x19,68" - private collection
Cesi Amoretti: "Outskirts butterflies", 1994
oil on canvas 39,37"x27,55" - private collection
Cesi Amoretti: "Map of the flight n° 3", 1995
oil on canvas 19,68"x19,68" - private collection
Cesi Amoretti: "Liguria's earths", 1995
oil on canvas 27,55"x27,55" - private collection
Cesi Amoretti: "Provenza's clear", 1995
oil on canvas 27,55"x27,55" - private collection
Cesi Amoretti: "Variations from the Ormond's gardens", 1995
oil on canvas 19,68"x19,68" - private collection
Cesi Amoretti: "Horizon", 1995
oil on canvas 23,62"x19,68" - private collection
Cesi Amoretti: "Flight n°1", 1996
oil on canvas 39,37"x19,68" - private collection
Cesi Amoretti: "Flight n°2", 1996
oil on canvas 19,68"x19,68" - private collection
Cesi Amoretti: "Fireflies n°. 1", 1997
oil on canvas 19,68"x27,55" - private collection
Cesi Amoretti: "Fireflies n°. 2", 1997
oil on canvas 15,74"x19,68" - private collection
Cesi Amoretti prematurely died in Sanremo in 1997.