ZERO. 1983.
Mixed media on canvas. Acrylic, charcoal and baobab hulls collaged on canvas.
Signed, dated and titled on the reverse. 146 x 172 cm (57.4 x 67.7 in).

• Marco Gastini is an important successor of the artists of the Turin Arte-povera movement like Giovanni Anselmo or Mario Merz.
• Combination of material, gesture and poetry.
• In 2001 the Lenbachhaus in Munich honored Marco Gastini with a comprehensive retrospective.
• In 1982 Marco Gastini was the starring artist of the Italian pavilion at the Venice Biennial.

PROVENANCE: Galerie Mueller-Roth, Stuttgart.
Private collection Baden-Württemberg.

EXHIBITION: Padiglione d´arte contemporanea, Comune di Ferrara, Assessorato Istituzioni Culturali ; Gallerie Civiche d’Arte Moderna, Palazzo dei Diamanti, February 26 - March 25, 1984, (with illu.).