{"product_id":"emilio-isgro-tevere-2006","title":"Emilio Isgrò — Tevere (2006)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTevere\u003c\/em\u003e (2006) is a painting by Emilio Isgrò (b. 1937, Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto), one of the most authoritative protagonists of Italian and international conceptual art and the artist who, in the 1960s, introduced the practice of \u003cem\u003ecancellatura\u003c\/em\u003e—erasure as a language—giving Italian art a vocabulary that has since become unmistakable. Painter, poet, writer and playwright, Isgrò has spent more than sixty years interrogating the relationship between word, image and meaning across painting, sculpture and installation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn his work, erasure is never destruction: it is the opening of a new field of interpretation, in which absence becomes presence, silence becomes language and what is removed acquires a significance of its own. \u003cem\u003eTevere\u003c\/em\u003e takes its title from the river that has accompanied the history and cultural identity of Rome for centuries; more than a geographical reference, the Tiber reads here as a metaphor for time—a course of water that crosses epochs, preserves traces of the past and continues to renew itself. The same tension is carried by the material: acrylic on canvas and wood sets the painterly surface against a physical, structural presence, extending the dialogue between image, matter and space that runs through the artist's research.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe work belongs to the artist's mature production, the phase in which his conceptual rigour and poetic sensibility are most fully resolved, and it speaks to the segment of his output that collectors follow most closely: the works in which the \u003cem\u003ecancellatura\u003c\/em\u003e idiom is immediately legible. Isgrò's standing is anchored institutionally—his participation in editions of the Venice Biennale, the major retrospective held at Palazzo Reale in Milan in 2016 and the exhibition dedicated to his research at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini in Venice in 2019—together with a production that spans painting, works on paper, sculpture and installation. For the collector, the appeal lies in the coherence of an oeuvre that is both historically legible and increasingly scarce in its most representative forms: a unique, museum-grade work by a protagonist of post-war European conceptualism.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Collecto Archive","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57982243471700,"sku":"4621","price":59400.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0975\/9083\/7588\/files\/4621.png?v=1793052676","url":"https:\/\/collectoarchive.com\/it\/products\/emilio-isgro-tevere-2006","provider":"Collecto Archive","version":"1.0","type":"link"}