Glasses (Double Twice Group) / Lucio Pozzi

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Accession Number
2008/2.249
Title
Glasses (Double Twice Group)
Artist
Lucio Pozzi
Artist Nationality
American
Artist Life Dates
born Italy, 1935
Object Creation Date
1973
Object Creation Place
North America
American
Creation Place 1
North America
Creation Place 2
American
Style/Group/Movement
conceptual art
Dimensions
38 cm x 35.8 cm (14 15/16 in. x 14 1/8 in.)
Century
20th century
Primary Object Classification
Painting
Primary Object Type
study
Physical Description
One of four paintings in the series Glasses (Double Twice Group). Skinny upright rectangle with rounded edges in dark pencil at center, filled in with sheer orange wash. Translucent mint green wash covers most of the orange, except for a strip visible at the top. The colored areas extend beyond the penciled-in borders.
Subject Matter
The title suggests that this abstract watercolor sketch is a study of a glass of water abstracted into elemental shapes and color effects. As one reviewer explains, “All of Pozzi's work ultimately relates to the language of painting…. [E]ach thing that he makes, in addition to being a self-contained entity, is also, in some sense, a fragment, a part of an ongoing process.” (Richard Kalina, "Lucio Pozzi at John Weber," Art in America, Dec 1996)
Going against the descriptiveness of the title, however, Pozzi has stated: “My painting doesn’t start from any premise other than the analysis of its own elementary characteristics. It does not include in its combination of elements outside premises such as mathematics, vegetation, primitive cultures, modern publicity, traditional symbolism, the esoteric or the occult. It is not at the service of anything, it doesn’t represent anything.” (cited in Bret Waller, Works from the Collection of Dorothy and Herbert Vogel exh. cat., University of Michigan Museum of Art)
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1433 x 2055
File Size
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Record
2008/2.249
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"Glasses (Double Twice Group); Lucio Pozzi." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2008-sl-2.249/2008_2_249.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed March 28, 2024.
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