{"id":109562,"date":"2022-04-29T16:27:56","date_gmt":"2022-04-29T15:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/egidimadeinitaly.com\/ecomsite\/pino-pascali-and-blue\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T14:15:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T13:15:06","slug":"pino-pascali-and-blue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/egidimadeinitaly.com\/en\/pino-pascali-and-blue\/","title":{"rendered":"Pino Pascali and blue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <strong>contemporary art<\/strong>&#8216;s fragmentation, from the abstract to the conceptual, the work&#8217;s material may transform, almost disappear or, on the contrary, become the subject itself.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, <strong>Yves Klein<\/strong> who gave his name to a new blue or <strong>Pino Pascali<\/strong> with his work with water.<\/p>\n<p>Pino Pascali (1935-1968 ) was one of the greatest artists of the first half of the twentieth century.<\/p>\n<p>His piece &#8220;<em>32 metri quadrati di mare circa<\/em>&#8221; [32 Square Meters of Sea] was shown for the first time in the contemporary art exhibition.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;<em>The space of the Image&#8221; organized in the Renaissance building Palazzo Trinci in Foligno in 1967. In an interview from that year, Pino Pascali said: &#8220;I want to do the same things with water. Water fascinates me a great deal, it becomes like a mirror, water has so many things.<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/egidimadeinitaly.com\/v25\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/EDB04B4C-4644-4B90-B818-0D81CB91C614-scaled-e1687251555657.jpeg\" alt=\"{%ALT_TEXT%}\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The work belongs to the National Gallery of Rome.<\/p>\n<p>\u201d<em>32 mq di mare circa<\/em>\u201d Pino Pascali&#8217;s installation, made up of 30 galvanized aluminum containers filled with water.<\/p>\n<p>The work is regularly re-installed inside the gallery, the water emptied, the containers cleaned and filled with the blue-colored water.<\/p>\n<p>There are notes that Pascali left, giving general instructions for maintaining the work.<\/p>\n<p>He used methylene blue for this installation. This synthetic dye is based on aniline and highly water soluble.<\/p>\n<p>Methylene blue is also a <strong>fascinating substance<\/strong> that was widely used as an antiseptic before the advent of penicillin.<\/p>\n<h2>You have a work by Pino Pascali and you want to sell it?<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Call us at +39 3356585431 or send us a message on WhatsApp at +39 3356585431<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>YOU CAN TRUST US<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The highest valuations, expertise, and reliability<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Appraisals, purchases and sale of the works by this artist<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In contemporary art&#8216;s fragmentation, from the abstract to the conceptual, the work&#8217;s material may transform, almost disappear or, on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":109017,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1448],"tags":[5575,6356,6141],"class_list":["post-109562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-magazine-en","tag-art-contemporain","tag-italian-arte-povera","tag-rome"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - 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