Barbara Mathes Gallery
Frieze Masters 2016

This year at Frieze Masters, Barbara Mathes Gallery presents the work of Giorgio Morandi (1890-1964) and Fausto Melotti (1901-1986). Although Morandi is best known as a representational painter of deceptively modest still-lives and Melotti as a sculptor of lyrical abstraction, their work shares a series of surprising formal and conceptual similarities. Interested in geometry and the interplay of solids and voids, both artists were preoccupied by repetitions with variations, serial forms, and a near architectural concern with space. While the delicate linearity of Melotti’s sculpture contrasts to the sculptural solidity of Morandi’s paintings, both artists continually explore the interaction of solids and voids and the perception of space.