Stanley Whitney's Chromatic Jazz at Gagosian Rome

Gagosian Rome presents an exhibition of new works by American painter Stanley Whitney (born Philadelphia, 1946). The show explores the artist's signature geometric abstraction, where color blocks are arranged in a grid-like structure inspired by the facades of the Colosseum and Palazzo Farnese, as well as the tiers of funerary urns at the National Etruscan Museum. Whitney's palette draws on two cultural spheres: a cardinal red developed in the U.S. and a vermilion red reminiscent of the Boscoreale frescoes at the National Archaeological Museum of Naples. The paintings possess the decisive yet soft rhythm of jazz, never redundant and free from formula. At the opening, a performance by poet Elisa Biagini and the Go_Dex Quartet brought poetic and musical nuances to life in the adjacent space of La Fondazione.