Giuseppe Uncini.

The selected works cover a period from 1961 to 2007. These make it possible to explore all of the artist's major cycles, including " Cementoarmato", " Mattoni", "Ombre", "Dimore", " Spazi di ferro", and "Architetture." As curator Demetrio Paparoni points out, "the 1960s was a period of great artistic ferment, and Uncini, while influenced by the European material abstractionism of the 1950s, sought a "third way," conceiving the work as a self-supporting structure, a synthesis of pure form.

In the work of Giuseppe Uncini (1929 - 2008), it is clear how his research evolved from his personal life and experience; during World War II, Uncini's family moved from Fabriano to Cerreto d'Esi. Abandoning his studies, Uncini was strongly influenced by the manual and technical skills observed in local crafts. After the war, he moved to Rome and began his artistic apprenticeship. In the 1950s his work was influenced by the work of the Abstract materialists, but he immediately developed a tendency to give interest to materials such as earth, coal and cement. Those were the years of the post-war revival, marked by artistic initiatives especially in cities such as Rome, Milan and Turin. In this climate, as early as the late 1950s, Uncini focused on works with an innovative character that, as evidenced by the critics and the many awards he received, played an important role in the history of Italian art. This new exhibition at the Dep Art Gallery, with its 28 works, proposes a path from his beginnings to the final phase of his life, offering those unfamiliar with his work the opportunity to understand why Uncini is one of the most recognized and appreciated artists in the post-World War II generation.