Sergio Lombardo. Monocromi | Monochromes. 1958-1961

Sergio Lombardo is a psychologist and artist, born in Rome in 1939. He is one of the main Italian artist who has renewed the international artistic language since the late Fifties. Along with others exponents of the “Nuova Scuola Romana”, he was a leading figure of the international historical avant-garde and of the Italian Pop Art. Monochromes, his debut artworks dating back from 1958 to 1961, feature an important moment of his career and fit into the reflection on the boundary between art and non-art. Monochromes act as a prelude to the radical process of Conceptual Art and they present three of the main aesthetic rules that characterize Lombardo’s entire research: Spontaneity, expressive abstinence and structurality. This series provides the prologue of what, in later decades, Lombardo will define “Eventualism”, an artistic and theorical movement he founded that was based on experimental methods.