Gianni Colombo

Gianni Colombo (Milan 1933 – Melzo 1993) was an Italian artist, member of the kinetic art movement.

Through his work Colombo dealt mainly with the perception of space, creating architectural environments and using a variety of supports including mechanical ones.[1] He was awarded the Grand Prize of the Venice Biennale of 1968 with one of its most famous works, elastic space.[2]

Bibliographical references

  1. Documenta IV. Catalogue of the exhibition, Kassel 1968.
  2. Kimpel, Harald / Stengel, Karin: documenta IV 1968, Internationale Ausstellung. Eine fotografische Rekonstruktion, Bremen 2007, ISBN 9783861085249.
  3. Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev and Marcella Beccaria (eds), Gianni Colombo. Castello di Rivoli, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea 2009. Milano, Skira, 2009, ISBN 9788857203140.

References

  1. ↑ "Megan Heuer, Gianni Colombo, in Art in America, June 2013".
  2. ↑ "The Venice Biennale, The 1960s".
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