(Genova 1922–1986 Milan)
Come l’edera (Like ivy), 1980, signed; signed and titled on the reverse, oil on canvas, 200 x 140 cm, framed

Provenance:
Studio Gastaldelli, Milan
Galleria Arte 92, Milan
European Private Collection

Exhibited:

Milan, Studio Gastaldelli, Emilio Scanavino, 24 March 1981,
exh. cat. n. p. with ill.
Milan, Studio Gastaldelli, Emilio Scanavino. Opere dal 1955 al 1982,
6 November 1986, exh. cat. n. p. with ill.
Milan, Galleria Arte 92, Emilio Scanavino, 21 October - 29 January 2011, exh. cat. pp. 82–83 with ill.
Milan, Dep Art, Emilio Scanavino. Opere 1968 – 1986, 8 April - 1 June 2016, exh. cat. with ill.
London, Robilant + Voena, Emilio Scanavino. The tactile sign of the void, 4 October - 11 November 2016, exh. cat. p. 157 with ill.

Literature:
R. Sanesi, Scanavino in ‘Maestri Contemporanei’ n. 29, Vanessa Edizioni d’Arte, Milan 1981, p. 11 with ill.
L. Talini, A. Verbel, Emilio Scanavino in ‘Fo. Do. Art’, December 1981, p. 5 with ill.
Emilio Scanavino, La memoria del tempo, Edizioni Punto e Linea, Milan p. 59, no. 65 with ill.
G. Graglia Scanavino, C. Pirovano, Scanavino. Catalogo generale, Electa, Milan 2000, p. 778, no. 1980 143.

"Space seems to open up, encountering obstacles. It juts out, creates tangles only to then
absorb them, to penetrate and submerge them, moving from full to empty, from the
undifferentiated to the distinct, from the outside to the inside. [...]
His painting is pure emanation in which material presences, sprouting of omens,
seem to conceal something inviolable."
Federico Sardella