Nero e Rosso (Schermo astratto 28/55), 1955

Among the founders of the Forma group, which was established in Rome in 1947, Antonio Sanfilippo actively supported a renewal of artistic language, premised upon looking back to the experiences of geometric painting. Starting in the early 1950s, a series of trips to Paris and time spent there contributed to the rapid development of his painting in the so-called “concrete” style of the time, characterized by free plastic aggregations, arranged in contrasting chromatic relationships. His work continued to evolve, and between 1953 and 1954 he developed a style marked by interwoven signs. [...]