OMAR RONDA 1947-2017 - DOLPHIN - ABS PLASTIC - POP ART - LAP BIELLA ITALY

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OMAR RONDA  1947-2017 - DOLPHIN - ABS PLASTIC - POP ART - LAP BIELLA  ITALY
Technique: Cracking Art
Subject: Dolphin
Measures cm 115
Very good condition
Signed Omar Ronda by L.A.P. Biella Italy
Omar Ronda was born in Portula (Italy) on September 11, 1947. From an early age, he developed a strong passion for the arts and devoted himself to painting. At that time, he met the director Maurizio Corgnati and his wife, the singer Milva, through which he met Carlo Fruttero and Franco Lucentini.
In 1967, he founded an art gallery in Biella and with the help of Gian Enzo Sperone and Lucio Amelio, he organized a series of major exhibitions of Arte Povera (Pistoletto, Kounellis, Penone, Zorio, Merz, Boetti, Paolini, Calzolari and later Paladino, De Maria and Chia).
From 1973 to 1974, he passed his time in New York where he met Leo Castelli and Eleana Sonnabend, with which he brought to Italy exhibitions of Rauschenberg , Warhol , Dine , Wesselmann , Twombly , Lichtenstein , Indiana , Oldenburg as well as the minimalist Sol LeWitt , Carl Andre , Robert Morris , and others. Later in New York, he met Basquiat and Heit Keith Haring. He then worked closely with Giorgio Marconi in Milan and organized with Lucrezia De Domizio Durini, in Pescara, a number of conferences and exhibitions of Joseph Beuys.
In 1988, he passed long periods in Sardinia and visited the Saras Oil Refinery that stroke him deeply enough to develop a philosophy that he named Cracking Art. This philosophy led him to look for the ancient origins of oil and to transform it into art with his revolutionary and conceptual "language".
In 1993, he formed a group with other artists with which he organized exhibitions and installations using plastic animals that he designed and created.
Omar Ronda (1947-2017) was one of the founders of the Cracking Art artistic movement: in 1993 artists, poets and musicians joined his philosophy and organized various exhibitions with them under the acronym Agravitazionale and later Cracking Art. Its creative activity in the years of maximum expression of Pop Art by participating in some local group exhibitions and regional and national painting competitions. In 1965/1966 he won two very important prizes for him in Santhià and Borgo Dale, in Piedmont, where he was selected by the juries composed by the director Maurizio Corgnati.
Portula  1947   -  Biella  2017
This is a nice piece that would stand out anywhere. It can be displayed on a table or floor. There is some light scratches on top. No cracks or major Damage. It is a large piece but it is very light.
44" - Long
17.5" - Tall
13" -  Wide
This Dolphin only weighs a little over 3 LBS but it is large and awkward item to pack. Due to shape the box has to be that much bigger , hence shipping fees.
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