Francesco Lo Savio

Francesco Lo Savio (1935-1963) is particularly highly regarded by artists and a small devoted following, but continues to be little known outside his native Italy. As a trained architect he worked on blueprint, as well as on canvas, and on sheet metal. But the materiality of the work is always pared down, the surfaces melding into surrounding space. In structure the work anticipates American Minimalism but in its effect canvas and steel are translated into direct experience of space and light it prefigures the achievements of conceptual art.