Iler Melioli
Iler Melioli (Reggio Emilia, 1949) is an Italian visual artist who’s been active since the early Eighties in the field of Neo-minimalism.
Biography[edit]
In the early Eighties, his studies of Neo-Baroque led him to an interesting cooperation with Severo Sarduy, the well-known writer and essayist linked to Roland Barthes’ circle. Through this relation, Melioli acquired the heuristic tools at the core of his artistic research, a reduction of the creative process into geometrical, anamorphic structures.
His artistic language can be ascribed to the same “resumption” of the matter and of the purity of shapes which would be defined, in 1991, as Neo-Geo (neo-geometric conceptualism)[1]. In that year, within the framework of AnniNovanta[2], Renato Barilli also labelled Melioli’s research as Neo-Minimalist, relating his work to that of many artists from New York's East Village[3] - such as Jeff Koons, Ashley Bickerton, Haim Steinbach and Peter Halley – and to other respected European artists - like John Armleder, Günther Förg, Stefano Arienti and Umberto Cavenago.
The main objective of that big exhibition, held at Bologna’s GAM[4], at Rimini’s Civic Museums and at Cattolica’s “Navi”, was to see the evolution of the Western artistic research with an international outlook, to mark the turning-point which it was undergoing since the mid-Eighties. As a matter of fact, the action painting, typical of Neo-expressionism, was facing the rise of a new sensitivity, a coming back to neat shapes and to an impersonal visual language intertwined to the use of raw materials from the new civilization of technology and communication.
Melioli’s artworks are indeed representative of this change of perspective. They witness a de-personalization sustained by the use of technologies from metallurgy and from automation, that is what characterizes our computerized production assets .
His language draws on numerical calculations as well as on physical and mathematical sciences, highlighting the possible relations between conceptual systems and natural phenomena. (R. Barilli)[5]
Since the early 2000s Melioli’s artistic research continued towards the development of an innovative geometrical abstraction, a visual language which aims to combine the bi-dimensionality of the painting with the three-dimensionality of the sculpture.[6]
In 2016, he presented his latest works in a personal exhibition called RES EXTENSA.
In 2014, he took part in the Biennale of Xinjiang[7], curated by Peng Feng (former curator of the Chinese pavilion at the 54th Biennale in Venice, in 2011).[8]
References[edit]
- ↑ Neo-geometric conceptualism on tate.org.uk
- ↑ Exhibition catalog on amazon.com
- ↑ New York East Village
- ↑ Now MAMbo
- ↑ Edoardo di Mauro, Un'altra storia 2. Arte italiana 1980-1990, exhibition catalog, Bertani&C ed., 2012
- ↑ From the artist's website
- ↑ Xinjiang Biennale
- ↑ "Peng Feng, aesthetics professor in Beijing - Maria Yvonne Pugliese". Maria Yvonne Pugliese (in italiano).
Sources[edit]
- S. Sarduy, Tre spiagge per Iler Melioli, cat. mostra, Civici Musei, Reggio Emilia, 1985[1]
- R. Daolio, Iler Melioli, cat. mostra , Civici Musei, Reggio Emilia, 1985[2]
- F. Poli, Iler Melioli, cat. mostra, Assessorato alla Cultura Comune di Rimini, 1990[3]
- R. Barilli, AnniNovanta, cat. mostra, Edizioni Mondadori Arte, 1991[4] ISBN 88-242-0087-7 Search this book on
. - E. Crispolti, in La pittura in Italia - Il Novecento - 3. Le ultime tendenze, Electa, vol. III, Milano, 1994
- D. Auregli, L.Meneghelli, Itinerari, cat. mostra GAM Bologna, 1994[5]
- V. Dehò, Scolpire la città, ed. Bertani&C., 2000[6]
- M. Miretti, Questione di segni, cat. mostra Musei Comunali Bologna, 2000[7]
- S. Parmiggiani, Un'arte glocale. Da Reggio Emilia ad Albacete - I quaderni di Palazzo Magnani, 2005
- R. Barilli, Prima e dopo il duemila, Edizioni Feltrinelli, Milano, 2006[8] ISBN 88-07-81904-X Search this book on .
- R. Barilli, Iler Melioli, cat. mostra Ed. Mazzotta, Chiostri di San Domenico - Civici Musei di Reggio Emilia, 2005/2006[9]
- M. Sciaccaluga, Contro e Vento, cat. mostra, Palazzo Ducale, Castelnovo né Monti (RE), 2006
- F. Gualdoni, Contro e Vento, cat. mostra, Silvana Editoriale, Palazzo Ducale Castelnovo né Monti, Centrale idroelettrica Ligonchio (RE), Castello di Terrarossa Licciana Nardi (MS), 2007
- G. Di Genova, Storia dell'arte italiana del '900 - Generazione anni Quaranta - Tomo II, Ed. Bora, Bologna, 2009[10] ISBN 978-88-88600-39-0 Search this book on .
- S. Parmiggiani, 90 artisti per una bandiera, cat mostra, Complesso del Vittoriano, Roma, 2013[11] ISBN 978-88-98420-00-1 Search this book on .
- Peng Feng e M. Y. Pugliese, cat. mostra, FLOW, Arte contemporanea italiana e cinese in dialogo, Edizioni Diogene Multimedia Vicenza, Basilica Palladiana, 2015[12] ISBN 978-88-99126-44-5 Search this book on .
- R. Caldura e M. Y. Pugliese, cat. mostra Res Extensa, Mimesis Edizioni, Galleria Yvonneartecontemporanea, Vicenza, 2017[13][14]ISBN 978-88-575-3944-7 Search this book on .
External links[edit]
- Official website , on ilermelioli.it
- La pittura ambientale di Iler Melioli on AD. Architectural Digest (Sonia S. Braga 25.11.2016)
- Res Extensa - Iler Melioli on youtube.com
- Inaugurazione "Grande Ondosauro", opera monumentale di Iler Melioli a Vicenza on vimeo.com
- Vernissage "OrganicoInorganico", personale di Iler Melioli con intervento critico di Renato Barilli on vimeo.com
- Flow arte contemporanea italiana e cinese in dialogo on vimeo.com
- Iler Melioli nella collezione privata del Gruppo Cooperativo CCPL
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- ↑ Severo Sarduy, carteggio con Iler Melioli 1984on ilermelioli.it
- ↑ Testo critico di Roberto Daolio on ilermelioli.it
- ↑ Testo critico di Francesco Poli on ilermelioli.it
- ↑ Renato Barilli ANNI NOVANTA, ed. Mondadori Arte, 1991 on ilermelioli.it
- ↑ Testi critici di Dede Auregli e Luigi Meneghelli on ilermelioli.it
- ↑ Testo critico di Valerio Dehò on ilermelioli.it
- ↑ Testo critico di Monica Miretti on ilermelioli.it
- ↑ Renato Barilli,Prima e dopo il 2000: la ricerca artistica 1970-2005, Feltrinelli Editore,2006
- ↑ Testo critico di Renato Barilli on ilermelioli.it
- ↑ G. Di Genova STORIA DELL'ARTE ITALIANA DEL '900 - generazione anni '40, Tomo II, ed Bora, 2009 on ilermelioli.it
- ↑ Parmiggiani NOVANTA ARTISTI PER UNA BANDIERA, ed. Corsiero on ilermelioli.it
- ↑ Flow 2015 - Iler Melioli on ilermelioli.it
- ↑ Testo critico di Riccardo Caldura on ilermelioli.it
- ↑ Conversazione con l'artista, di Maria Yvonne Pugliese on ilermelioli.it
