Cardi Gallery Milan is pleased to announce a solo exhibition dedicated to the work of Agostino Bonalumi, one of the defining figures of post-war Italian art. Organised in collaboration with Archivio Bonalumi, Agostino Bonalumi. Tertium non datur – Il colore che manca brings together over twenty monochromatic works from across the artist’s experimental career, offering a survey of his most significant series from 1964 to 2013, the year of his passing.
The title of the exhibition, a Latin phrase which refers to the law of excluded middle (‘no third is given’), takes a cue from the rigorous chromatic, formal and material investigations that formed the essence of Bonalumi’s art. Presented as a series of dichotomous encounters between black and white surfaces, the show traces successive cycles of works to which Bonalumi dedicated his career: from the first estroflessioni and fibreglass sculptures of the 1960s, through the grid series (1971–1989), to works on paper and metal sheet, as well as the steel wire canvases of his final decades.