Novalis Art Design gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition dedicated to the Italian artist, architect and designer Marcello Morandini, with support from the Italian Cultural Institute in Hong Kong.

Morandini’s artistic production began in the early 1960s in a climate of great experimentation and of rupture with tradition and Art Informel. In this context, the artist elaborates a rigorous visual grammar that will remain, for the entire course of his career, his signature style. Always maintaining a strong aesthetic and conceptual consistency, Morandini studies and designs geometrical forms. He disassembles them and rebuilds them. He moves them within a space delimited by a square. He gives them volume, transforming them in tridimensional sculptures or in actual architectures.

From his first works, the artist chooses to only use black and white in juxtaposition with each other (and gray in some cases to create depth). In the words of the artist in an interview for AD Italia in 2021, “from the years of work with Fronzoni I learnt that you don’t need too much to explain what you want to say. With black on white you can say everything: music is written black on white, literature too. World knowledge is in black and white.” In fact, Morandini sticks to the essential, to minimal language, he reduces everything to very few elements that work as starting points for infinite plastic and formal evolutions and involutions.

Marcello Morandini finds in mathematical geometry his criteria of order and construction of reality. Through lines and absolute forms, the artist produces models that define space, the arrangement of elements and time. Spatial and temporal dimensions are interconnected through formulas established by the artist, creating a complex visual mechanism that is unique and spectacular.

Morandini’s work is a constant and rigorous research of balance between absolute and eternal perfection of geometric shapes and human space, changeable and relative, through a visual language that surpasses all canons, calling into question our certainties.

For Fine Art Asia 2022, Novalis Art Design gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition dedicated to the Italian artist, architect and designer Marcello Morandini, with support from the Italian Cultural Institute in Hong Kong.

Morandini’s artistic production began in the early 1960s in a climate of great experimentation and of rupture with tradition and Art Informel. In this context, the artist elaborates a rigorous visual grammar that will remain, for the entire course of his career, his signature style. Always maintaining a strong aesthetic and conceptual consistency, Morandini studies and designs geometrical forms. He disassembles them and rebuilds them. He moves them within a space delimited by a square. He gives them volume, transforming them in tridimensional sculptures or in actual architectures.

From his first works, the artist chooses to only use black and white in juxtaposition with each other (and gray in some cases to create depth). In the words of the artist in an interview for AD Italia in 2021, “from the years of work with Fronzoni I learnt that you don’t need too much to explain what you want to say. With black on white you can say everything: music is written black on white, literature too. World knowledge is in black and white.” In fact, Morandini sticks to the essential, to minimal language, he reduces everything to very few elements that work as starting points for infinite plastic and formal evolutions and involutions.

Marcello Morandini finds in mathematical geometry his criteria of order and construction of reality. Through lines and absolute forms, the artist produces models that define space, the arrangement of elements and time. Spatial and temporal dimensions are interconnected through formulas established by the artist, creating a complex visual mechanism that is unique and spectacular.

Morandini’s work is a constant and rigorous research of balance between absolute and eternal perfection of geometric shapes and human space, changeable and relative, through a visual language that surpasses all canons, calling into question our certainties.