Collection: Giuseppe Capogrossi

(Rome 1900 - Rome 1972)

Giuseppe Capogrossi was one of the leading figures of Italian Abstract Art in the post-World War II period. After an initial figurative phase linked to the Jeune École de Rome, by the end of the 1940s he emptied the canvas of any naturalistic reference to create a unique visual alphabet, based on the famous “fork or comb sign”: a modular geometry combined in infinite spatial variations.
This insight found its greatest expression precisely in the field of original graphics, to which Capogrossi dedicated himself with geometric rigor and exceptional technical mastery. Through lithography, etching, and screen printing, the artist experimented with the purity of the contrast between black and white and the absolute use of flat color, elevating the multiplied work to a perfect conceptual laboratory of his sign.
Winner of the Graphic Award at the Venice Biennale in 1962, he redefined the engraving of the twentieth century, making it an essential focal point of his spatial and rhythmic research.