Discover the Brilliance of Giulio Turcato: A Master of Abstract Art
Unveiling the Legacy and Innovations of One of Italy’s Foremost Abstract Artists Let’s immerse ourselves in the captivating saga of
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Giulio Turcato - Discesa in blu Antonino La Vela Art Journal
Contemporary Art Criticism, Interviews, Essays and Visual Politics
Gruppo Forma 1
Gruppo Forma 1 was one of the most important ruptures in post-war Italian art. Founded in Rome in 1947, the group challenged a question that still feels urgent today: can art be political without becoming propaganda?
Starting from the Forma 1 manifesto and its historical context, this archive explores the artists, ideas and conflicts around a movement that refused both academic comfort and easy ideological illustration. Forma 1 defended abstraction, structure, color, sign and plastic form as serious artistic languages, not as an escape from history.
The group included artists such as Carla Accardi, Piero Dorazio, Pietro Consagra, Achille Perilli, Antonio Sanfilippo, Giulio Turcato, Ugo Attardi and Mino Guerrini. Their claim was radical because it joined two positions often treated as incompatible: formalism and Marxism. For Forma 1, abstraction was not neutrality. It was a way to resist control, sentimentality and propaganda through the discipline of form.
This tag gathers articles on Gruppo Forma 1, Italian abstraction and the unresolved relationship between art, politics and freedom after World War II.
Giulio Turcato - Discesa in blu 
Mino Guerrini - Untitled Mino Guerrini: The Versatile Artist and His Diverse Oeuvre
Mino Guerrini: A Multifaceted Talent in Italian Cinema and Visual Arts In the world of Italian art and film, few
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Colloquio Definitivo (1960) — Bronze — 115 × 116 × 8 cm. Pietro Consagra’s Colloquio Definitivo: A Forma 1 Group Masterpiece in Bronze
Bronze, Dialogue, and the Forma 1 Imagination Some sculptures occupy space. Others occupy a relationship. Pietro Consagra’s Colloquio Definitivo (1960)
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Forma 1 Group The Forma 1 Group – How political conditions destroied the Italian Abstractism
Bridging Contemporary Sociopolitical Art and Conceptual Modern Paintings to Marxism in Post-War Italy The story of Forma 1 still feels
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Piero Dorazio - Kasimiro Medio Piero Dorazio and Kasimiro Medio
Masters of Color and Form: Piero Dorazio and Kasimiro medio (1967) Piero Dorazio stands among the key builders of Italian
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Antonio Sanfilippo – Black and Red (Abstract Screen 28/55) Antonio Sanfilippo: The Vibrant Pulse of Post-War Italian Art
Exploring the Legacy of a Master of Abstraction In the vivid tapestry of post-war Italian art, Antonio Sanfilippo stands out
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Ugo Attardi - All'alba all'isola delle Femmine (At dawn on the Island of the Females) 1949 Ugo Attardi: From Forma 1 to Monumental Sculpture and Global Recognition
A Journey from Palermo to Global Acclaim in Art Ugo Attardi (1923–2006) lived several artistic lives in one body: painter,
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Carla Accardi Carla Accardi: Abstract Art, Rivolta Femminile, and the Politics of Visibility in Italy
Pioneering postwar abstraction, inventing a sign-language, and turning feminism into a public rupture. Carla Accardi (Trapani, 1924 – Rome, 2014)
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Achille Perilli - Il collasso del carnale Achille Perilli – Il collasso del carnale
Achille Perilli and “Il Collasso del Carnale” Forma 1, Marxism, and a collapsing geometry of desire. Achille Perilli’s artistic path
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