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Lucio del Pezzo — Mondo Come Misura e Risoluzione (Studio I)
Lucio del Pezzo

Mondo Come Misura e Risoluzione (Studio I)

Composed with meticulous precision, this large-scale work presents a grid of black geometric and biomorphic forms arranged across a cream ground, each shape contained within its own cell and yet collectively participating in a rhythmic visual language that resists easy resolution. The découpage technique lends each element a subtle physicality, the cut edges casting faint shadows that animate the surface and distinguish the work from purely graphic abstraction. Against this disciplined field of black forms, a single red diagonal bar placed near the center of the composition asserts itself with quiet authority, functioning simultaneously as a disruption, a focal point, and a key to the work's broader argument about measurement and meaning. Del Pezzo, a founding member of the Italian conceptual group Gruppo 63 and a figure closely associated with the Nouveau Réalisme milieu, developed throughout his career a visual vocabulary that drew equally on archaeology, folk culture, semiotics, and the history of sign systems. The forms populating this work oscillate between legibility and abstraction, suggesting fragments of alphabets, architectural elements, astronomical symbols, and prehistoric marks without resolving into any single referential system. The title, which translates approximately as "The World as Measure and Resolution," frames the work as an inquiry into how human beings organize visual experience into units of comprehensible meaning, and what remains when those units are stripped of their conventional contexts and placed in radical equivalence with one another. Executed on paper at a commanding scale of 152 by 101 centimeters, the work demonstrates del Pezzo's ability to sustain conceptual rigor across an expansive format without sacrificing the intimacy and handcraft that characterize his finest production. The red intruder in the grid rewards prolonged attention, shifting in reading from a simple chromatic accent to something more philosophically charged, a reminder that any system of classification contains within it the possibility of the anomalous, the unmeasurable, the unresolved. Works of this scale and ambition from del Pezzo's mature period are seldom encountered outside institutional collections, and this example represents a significant opportunity to acquire a work that speaks directly to concerns, seriality, sign systems, the limits of taxonomy, that remain urgently relevant to contemporary artistic and intellectual discourse.

Medium
Découpage and acrylic on paper

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Martini Studio d'Arte: Modern And Contemporary Art

June 10, 2026

Estimate: €6,000 to €8,000

Lot 63

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Lucio del Pezzo, Mondo Come Misura e Risoluzione (Studio I)

Composed with meticulous precision, this large-scale work presents a grid of black geometric and biomorphic forms arranged across a cream ground, each shape contained within its own cell and yet collectively participating in a rhythmic visual language that resists easy resolution. The découpage technique lends each element a subtle physicality, the cut edges casting faint shadows that animate the surface and distinguish the work from purely graphic abstraction. Against this disciplined field of black forms, a single red diagonal bar placed near the center of the composition asserts itself with quiet authority, functioning simultaneously as a disruption, a focal point, and a key to the work's broader argument about measurement and meaning. Del Pezzo, a founding member of the Italian conceptual group Gruppo 63 and a figure closely associated with the Nouveau Réalisme milieu, developed throughout his career a visual vocabulary that drew equally on archaeology, folk culture, semiotics, and the history of sign systems. The forms populating this work oscillate between legibility and abstraction, suggesting fragments of alphabets, architectural elements, astronomical symbols, and prehistoric marks without resolving into any single referential system. The title, which translates approximately as "The World as Measure and Resolution," frames the work as an inquiry into how human beings organize visual experience into units of comprehensible meaning, and what remains when those units are stripped of their conventional contexts and placed in radical equivalence with one another. Executed on paper at a commanding scale of 152 by 101 centimeters, the work demonstrates del Pezzo's ability to sustain conceptual rigor across an expansive format without sacrificing the intimacy and handcraft that characterize his finest production. The red intruder in the grid rewards prolonged attention, shifting in reading from a simple chromatic accent to something more philosophically charged, a reminder that any system of classification contains within it the possibility of the anomalous, the unmeasurable, the unresolved. Works of this scale and ambition from del Pezzo's mature period are seldom encountered outside institutional collections, and this example represents a significant opportunity to acquire a work that speaks directly to concerns, seriality, sign systems, the limits of taxonomy, that remain urgently relevant to contemporary artistic and intellectual discourse.

Medium
Découpage and acrylic on paper
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Martini Studio d'Arte

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Semiotics, Avant Garde, Découpage, Visual Language, Male Artist, Modernist, Mixed Media, Conceptual Art, Large Scale Work, Grid Composition, Pattern And Repetition, Collage, Italian Artist, Sign And Symbol, Black And White, Archaeological Motifs, Works On Paper, Abstract Geometric, Nouveau Réalisme, Biomorphic Forms, Black Red Cream

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