(Rome 1927–2005 Todi)
Solar I, 1970, signed, dated and titled Piero Dorazio, 1970 on the reverse, oil on canvas, 115 x 125 cm, framed

Provenance:
Marlborough Gallery, Rome (partially torn label on the reverse)
Nuova Brerarte, Milan, 12 March 1990
Farsetti, Prato, 28 November 1998
European Private Collection

Literature:
M. Volpi Orlandini in the catalogue of the exhibition “Associazione Piazza Maggiore” held at Palazzo del Popolo, Todi, March-May 1975
M. Volpi Orlandini in the catalogue of the exhibition held at Galleria del Milione, Milan, May-June 1975 (cat. Todi 1975)
M. Volpi Orlandini, J. Lassaigne, G. Crisafi, Dorazio. Catalogo ragionato delle opere, Alfieri, Venice 1977, p. 143 (full page) no. 1171

In Piero Dorazio’s painting geometry is a scheme to be subverted by undermining the closed form; color is the instrument of dynamic saturatiojn of the space; the constructive value of the composition determines fields of tension commensurate to the vertigo of the unstable equilibriums. The piece is a luminous score that follows the continuous pulsation of space, the vibrations of color are rhythms projected toward other channels; their dynamic flux reveals interior sounds, oblique resonances of marking strokes, woven thought that slides from pictorial discipline.
Claudio Cerritelli

Provenance:
Marlborough Gallery, Rome (partially teared label on the reverse)
Nuova Brerarte, Milan, 12 March 1990
Farsetti, Prato, 28 November 1998
European Private Collection

Literature:
M. Volpi Orlandini in the catalogue of the exhibition “Associazione Piazza Maggiore” held at Palazzo del Popolo, Todi, March-May 1975
M. Volpi Orlandini in the catalogue of the exhibition held at Galleria del Milione, Milan, May-June 1975 (cat. Todi 1975)
M. Volpi Orlandini, J. Lassaigne, G. Crisafi, Dorazio. Catalogo ragionato delle opere, Alfieri, Venice 1977, p. 143 (full page) no. 1171

In Piero Dorazio’s painting geometry is a scheme to be subverted by undermining the closed form; color is the instrument of dynamic saturatiojn of the space; the constructive value of the composition determines fields of tension commensurate to the vertigo of the unstable equilibriums. The piece is a luminous score that follows the continuous pulsation of space, the vibrations of color are rhythms projected toward other channels; their dynamic flux reveals interior sounds, oblique resonances of marking strokes, woven thought that slides from pictorial discipline.
Claudio Cerritelli