Storie Milanesi

Archivio Vincenzo Agnetti

Vincenzo Agnetti

Artist | Sempione | From the 1960s to the end of the millennium

Biography

You weren’t there. When your friend Piero Manzoni died, not quite 30 years of age, you weren’t there, Vincenzo. Nor were you there when they opened the red line of the metro, the one by Franco Albini. When Milan was becoming a capital of design, of contemporary art and finance, you were in Argentina with your family. You lived there for five years, from 1962 to 1967, working on electronic automation of hydroelectric power plants. A technical, absorbing, rational, unemotional job. In those years you were ready to liquidate your past as an artist, the period you decided to call “no art.” No art of the past, of the present, only life, freedom, horseback riding by the ocean, boundless horizons.…

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  Axiom–Time is the path of space and space is the sedimentation of time, 1970. Black bakelite, incised and coated with white nitro varnish,70 x 70 cm. Courtesy of ProjectB Gallery, Milan.

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  Axiom – The system uses objects as vehicles and ideasas fuel, 1973. . Black bakelite, incised and coated with white nitro varnish, 80 x 80 cm. Courtesy Archivio Vincenzo Agnetti, Milan.

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  Meridiana. Tempus mentis – Time is the mental weight of events, 1972. Acrylic on wood, formica and aluminium, 100 x 100 cm. Courtesy Archivio Vincenzo Agnetti, Milan.

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  Portrait of a Lover, 1971. Red flame-engraved felt, painted gold, 80 x 120 cm. Courtesy Archivio Vincenzo Agnetti, Milan.

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  Self-Phone Call, 1972. Photographs with handwritten text, 40 x 126 cm. Collection of Emilio and Luisa Marinoni.

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  Project for a Political Hamlet, 1973. Sixty photo enlargements and texts printed on aluminium, iron stage, audio and six panels with Italian-English texts. Courtesy Archivio Vincenzo Agnetti, Milan.

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  Self-Portrait, 1971. Dark gray felt, painted silver, 120 x 80 cm. Courtesy Archivio Vincenzo Agnetti, Milan.

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  Portrait, 1971. White flame-engraved felt, painted silver, 80 x 120 cm. Courtesy Archivio Vincenzo Agnetti, Milan.

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  14th-20th Century, 1970. Frescos removed and placed on canvas, 80 x 75 cm each. Collection of Luigi Franco, Turin.

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  Vincenzo Agnetti and the installation of the work Apocalypse, photo by Ugo Mulas.

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  Vincenzo Agnetti at his exhibition “Vitalità del negativo nell’arte italiana 1960/70” (Vitality of the Negative in Italian Art), Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome (November 1970– January 1971), 1970.

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  Vincenzo Agnettiin his studio with his work Queen Elizabeth, 1976.

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  Vincenzo Agnetti with his work Portrait of God, photo by Ugo Mulas.

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  Vincenzo Agnetti with his work Principia, 1973.

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  Vincenzo Agnetti at the door of his studio.

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  Vincenzo Agnettiin his studio, on the bed by Gio Ponti, 1978.

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  Photograph of the studio of Vincenzo Agnetti, with his unfinished work The Skylight in the foreground, 1981.

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  Agnetti in his studio, against the backdrop of his works Mass Mediaand On Impermanence, photo by Oliviero Zanni,April 1978.

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  Photograph of the set-up of Archivio Vincenzo Agnetti in March 2014.

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  Photograph of the set-up of Archivio Vincenzo Agnetti in February 2016.

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  Photograph of the set-up of Archivio Vincenzo Agnetti in November 2017.

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  Photograph of the set-up of Archivio Vincenzo Agnetti in April 2018.

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  Photograph of the set-up of Archivio Vincenzo Agnetti in April 2018.

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  Photograph of the set-up of Archivio Vincenzo Agnetti in April 2018.