The Foundation
There is an almost insurmountable problem in a website that explains the person and work of Carlo Battaglia. Because he in 1974 wrote (in his book PARALLEL IMAGE AND OTHER CONJECTURES):
“I wish that my current paintings be no longer reproduced (except for reasonable exceptions of color reproductions of sufficient size and accuracy, personally overseen by me). This is not only because my paintings are literally unreproducible, but also because I intend to reject the use of a mechanical means that from the subsidiary task of facilitating the memory of an observed and studied work, has passed to the primary task of replacing the work itself, nullifying and corrupting what should always be the task of the person who executed the work and of the person who, looking at it, intends to understand it: direct observation and a long, active contemplation.”
Now, from 1976 to today the quality of digital reproduction has improved a lot, then in full respect of his writing, which still remains of great value, it was inevitable that in order to achieve even just some of the objectives set by the Carlo Battaglia Foundation, we had to accept the idea of showing his works on these pages. That said, you will always be invited to look at them with your own eyes, the only way for them to reach your heart.
History of Foundation
The Foundation Carlo Battaglia was established in 2012 and obtained by the Prefecture of Rome – Local Government – legal recognition (Presidential Decree no. 10 February 2000). It is registered in the Register of Legal Entities since June 26, 2013, n. 361/2013. It’s ment to promote, develop and coordinate cultural activities to increase the knowledge on Carlo Battaglia poetry and his artistic works (Biography). The Foundation is the natural peak of an activity of archiving, preservation and enhancement of the work of Carlo Battaglia conducted by the wife Carla Panicali that, since the artist’s death, has focused on the realization of the catalogue raisonné of the painter.
Board of Directors
Pietro Arona President
Corrado Rava Vice President
Alberto Rava Advisor
Roberto Lambarelli Advisor
Maria Concetta Pirrotta Advisor
Auditor Elena Gilardini.
Scientific Committee : Pietro Arona, Corrado Rava, Alberto Rava, Roberto Lambarelli, Marco Meneguzzo.
The Authentication Committee meets periodically and is made by Foundation President (Pietro Arona) plus the members of the Scientific (Corrado Rava, Alberto Rava, Roberto Lambarelli, Marco Meneguzzo).
Activities and Services
The Foundation Carlo Battaglia research and collects, for its own library, publications, catalogs and
testimony concerning Carlo Battaglia. It cares of the preservation, cataloging and studying documents and
archival materials currently existing, to be gradually allocated so to be used by scholars. The Foundation
archive includes documentation on the works of abstract and figurative period, photographs,
correspondence, exhibition catalogs and auction. It is only available to scholars, by ahead appointment. The
Foundation provides support and assistance for the realization of exhibitions, publications and other
cultural initiatives aimed for the promotion and dissemination of knowledge on the figure of Carlo
Battaglia.
The General Catalog of Carlo Battaglia (1933-2005) is a fundamental tool for the knowledge of one of the most significant Italian artists, and most present on the Italian cultural scene starting from those seventies of the twentieth century, which saw him as one of the leading artists of the so-called “Analytical Painting”, or “Painting Painting”, from which he also ideally distances himself to claim a sort of creative solitude that lasted another twenty-five years, in which the repetitive obsession of the sea, taken as the sole subject of his being a painter , it is at the same time start and result, cause and end product. Curated by Marco Meneguzzo and Simone Pallotta for the Carlo Battaglia Foundation, the catalog collects about four hundred of the major works – including canvases and large papers -, amply illustrated and accompanied by complete critical apparatus, which also include the reprint of all the most significant written works of the artist, as well as an exhaustive historical critical essay by Marco Meneguzzo.
Available at the Carlo Battaglia Foundation in:
Via San Vittore al Teatro 3
20123 Milano Italy
TEL. 02 876946
Address
Via San Vittore al Teatro 3
20123 Milano Italy
TEL. 02 876946