Pietro Consagra: La Materia Poteva Non Esserci

Tracing the multifaceted career of a famed Italian abstractionist

Italian artist Pietro Consagra (1920-2005) favored structured abstraction, and though he is known primarily as a sculptor, he also worked in painting, drawing, writing, jewelry, furniture-making and urban architecture. Accompanying an exhibition in Switzerland, this publication reviews the artist's vast oeuvre from the 1950s to '70s.