Gottardo Ortelli's Chromatic Immersion at Galleria Antonio Battaglia

Galleria Antonio Battaglia in Milan presents a solo exhibition of works by Gottardo Ortelli (1938–2003), the Varese-born painter and former professor at the Accademia di Brera. The show focuses on his output from the 1970s, featuring around twenty acrylic-on-canvas pieces that explore color as a physical and structural element. Ortelli described his approach as an “immersione totale” (total immersion) in chromaticity, where lines become units of color measurement. His paintings from this period are characterized by sequences of segments and “geometrie obbligatorie” (obligatory geometries), with oblique and eccentric diagonals creating physical reliefs of pigment that challenge classical pictorial form. The exhibition runs until an unspecified date in 2017.