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Bobinska Brownlee is delighted to present works by Claudio del Sole, alongside sound and sculptural works by contemporary artists James Brooks, Robert Good and D J Roberts.

Born in Rome, Claudio del Sole (1926 - 2005) was an artist and amateur astronomer whose work has direct points of contact with a number of the most significant tendencies in post-war Italian art.

Attuned both to the Informel aesthetics of Alberto Burri, and the 鈥榮culptural鈥� concerns of Spatialists such as Paolo Scheggi, his paintings and reliefs capture the excitement generated by the dawn of the space age. In 1959 he co-founded the 鈥楢stralist鈥� movement with the aim of promoting 鈥渁 new art, conscious of the cosmic dimension opening up before humanity鈥�. Similar ambitions were shared by a number of Del Sole鈥檚 contemporaries. That same year the Nuclear artists, led by Enrico Baj, published their manifesto of 鈥業nterplanetary Art鈥�, and Lucio Fontana created the first of his slashed canvases, through which one seems to glimpse the infinity of space. The timing was not coincidental 鈥� 1959 was also the year that the first images of the earth were taken from orbit, as well as the earliest photographs of the dark side of the moon.

Del Sole saw no contradiction between his predilection for abstraction and his observation of natural phenomena, finding inspiration in the swirling patterns of galaxies and nebulae. Nor did he recognise any distinctions between art and life, asserting: 鈥淭he artist is not enclosed in a restricted or exclusive world of his own. He is like an antenna, sensitive to all that which happens around him. Therefore, he is attentive to social changes and the progress of science; that is, to the unfolding story of mankind.鈥� Such convictions place his work squarely in the Futurist tradition represented by his friend Sante Monachesi and his idol, Enrico Prampolini, whose 鈥榗osmic aeropaintings鈥� of the 1930s anticipated a number of the ideas explored by Del Sole鈥檚 generation.