Catalog accompanying a retrospective of works in various media by American artist and designer Angelo Testa (1921-84 ) Held at Gallery 400 at the College of Architecture, Art, and Urban Planning/University of Illinois at Chicago from April 13 to May 6, 1983. 8vo. (6” x 9”), printed wrappers, 24 unnumbered pages, color and b/w illustrations. With text by Angelo Testa, Marianne Willisch, and others. Per the gallery announcement, “Angelo Testa: Designer/Painter/Weaver was an exhibition surveying over 40 years of work by the American designer, painter, sculptor, and weaver, Angelo Testa. Testa, the first graduate of László Moholy-Nagy’s New Bauhaus in Chicago, sought to elevate everyday mass-produced objects into works of exceptional Modernist beauty using bold and simple geometric elements. In approaching his textiles, Testa employed his training as a painter in order to create works that were vibrant, abstract, and minimal, with powerful lines and playfully interconnected forms…In the Gallery 400 exhibition, examples of Testa’s textile designs, many of which are now housed in the collections of some of the largest textile manufacturers in the country, accompanied his paintings, rugs, fiber weavings, and architectural details.” Scarce. Light bumping and rubbing to extremities.
Catalog accompanying a retrospective of works in various media by American artist and designer Angelo Testa (1921-84 ) Held at Gallery 400 at the College of Architecture, Art, and Urban Planning/University of Illinois at Chicago from April 13 to May 6, 1983. 8vo. (6” x 9”), printed wrappers, 24 unnumbered pages, color and b/w illustrations. With text by Angelo Testa, Marianne Willisch, and others. Per the gallery announcement, “Angelo Testa: Designer/Painter/Weaver was an exhibition surveying over 40 years of work by the American designer, painter, sculptor, and weaver, Angelo Testa. Testa, the first graduate of László Moholy-Nagy’s New Bauhaus in Chicago, sought to elevate everyday mass-produced objects into works of exceptional Modernist beauty using bold and simple geometric elements. In approaching his textiles, Testa employed his training as a painter in order to create works that were vibrant, abstract, and minimal, with powerful lines and playfully interconnected forms…In the Gallery 400 exhibition, examples of Testa’s textile designs, many of which are now housed in the collections of some of the largest textile manufacturers in the country, accompanied his paintings, rugs, fiber weavings, and architectural details.” Scarce. Light bumping and rubbing to extremities.
