Laura Castagno
Works of the 60s

This volume presents a selection of works and of  "folded and painted papers" by Laura Castagno.
Giovanni M. Accame writes that they contain "...two intertwined and decisive aspects: the premises of a practice that has evolved up until the present and the roots of a wider experience in cultural learning that is not only  strictly artistic."
In other words, the concept of sign/module that in various forms has accompanied all of the artist's work, as in the last powerful work "Corteo Regale / Royal Procession" of 2005/2006 at the Villa Pisani in Stra where the signs are subjected to the sculptural force of gravity.
The conceptuality and the practice of folding inclines towards sculpture, in the three-dimensional rendering of the surface, and towards the installation to which the artist dedicated herself early on, just as painting is articulating with colours a discourse of visual signs.
Joyful works of geometries hinted at, that Munari and Lohse loved, rhythms and colours that allude to the great themes of harmony and clarity that run though the 20th century.
Signs/modules that are square, rectangular, polyform, repetitive, expanded towards the external space of the sheet and of the room, on paper of large or minute dimensions: beyond their high aesthetic and poetic value, they always appear as free fragments of a universe of signs and of sense that, with the learned game of folding and sometimes the cut, indicate the three-dimensionality without confronting it completely. If not in the precocious environmental works and in the cybernetic and urban utopia works also of the sixties.

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