Artist: William Xerra

L’opera come promessa – William Xerra

Multifaceted artist and tireless experimenter, William Xerra (Florence, 1937) explored the infinite possibilities of art through the encroachment between disciplines and the contamination between techniques and languages. After his debut as a painter in the 1950s in the wake of Morandi and Sironi, he approaches informal and new dada research, thus winking at conceptual investigations. However, the first decisive relationships are with poets, in particular with protagonists of Visual Poetry such as Emilio Villa and Corrado Costa. The exhibition documents part of his widespread research and...

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