With «Compilations», the Palazzo Collicola in Spoleto (IT) presents the first institutional solo exhibition of the artist Michael Venezia. The artist created the 15 «Compilations» in Italy and are now being exhibited for the first time in an Italian public institution.
Michael Venezia is one of the most productive and still active painters amongst the artists involved within the American Minimalism movement, along such painters as Sol LeWitt, Dan Flavin, and Donald Judd, lifetime friends and work colleagues in New York since the 1960s.
His work is based on experimentations in which painting is reduced to its basic principles of colour and bidimensionality, where the physical act of painting has been substituted by spray pistols as early as 1966, and on the objective emphasis of the painting action through the use of bars and blocks of wood upon which colour is applied, a process started in the mid-1980s.