NEW!! OPENING - CORTESI GALLERY MILANO PRESENTA LA MOSTRA CON ZAGREB CALLING, IVAN PICELJ, VJENCESLAV RICHTER AND JULIJ KNIFER - GIOVEDI' 28 MARZO ORE 18 - CORSO DI PORTA NUOVA 46/B MILANO

Cortesi Gallery Milan is pleased to announce Zagreb Calling Ivan Picelj, Vjenceslav Richter and Julije Knifer   Exhibition curated and catalogue edited by Ilaria Bignotti Exhibition dates: 29 March - 28 June 2019 Opening: Thursday 28 March, 6.00 - 8.30 pm Cortesi Gallery, Corso di Porta Nuova 46/B, Milan

Ivan Picelj, Composition RYAC I, 1961, oil on canvas, 98 x 110 cm. Photo: Damir Fabijanić. Courtesy of Anja Picelj-Kosak and Ivan Picelj's Archives and Library, Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb

Three years after the exhibitions The Concrete Utopia: Ivan Picelj and New Tendencies 1961-1973 held in 2016 in London and Lugano, this new exhibition in Milano's space intends to present the artist Ivan Picelj next to two fundamental Croatian figures of his same period: Vjenceslav Richter and Julije Knifer. Founders of neo-constructivist and conceptual languages, they developed a deep linguistic revolution that still continues to contaminate and inspire our visual culture and to interest international collecting increasingly. The show features paintings, sculptures and graphics selected directly from the Ivan Picelj Archive, Vjenceslav Richter Archive, MSU Zagreb and from international private collections and proposes a historical-artistic journey that emphasizes the importance of the City of Milan as a center, since the late 1950s, for exchanges between European and Ex-Jugoslavia artists.

Exhibition views "Zagreb Calling. Ivan Picelj, Vjenceslav Richter and Julije Knifer", Cortesi Gallery Milan. Photo by Bruno Bani. Courtesy Cortesi Gallery London, Milan, Lugano.