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Ezio Martinelli at Robert Henry Adams.(art exhibition)

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From: Art in America
Date: 20051201
Author:Cassidy, Victor M.

Ezio Martinelli (1913-1980), an almost completely forgotten gestural artist of the New York School, dealt with conflict, struggle and the horrible in his work, which makes it painfully relevant to our time. His monumental drawings of the early '50s are filled with restless, writhing forms, twisted body parts and insect-like monsters that fight to the death. Nuclear warfare seemed quite possible when he made the drawings and World War II was a recent memory. Though his work bespeaks anxiety and foreboding, Martinelli is too serious to wallow in melodrama.

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