Background
Mr. Toroni was born in Muralto, Switzerland, on March 15, 1937.
Niele Toroni painting.
Niele Toroni with his work.
Niele Toroni working.
Mr. Toroni was born in Muralto, Switzerland, on March 15, 1937.
Toroni initiated a practice called "Travail-Peinture". His method, brushstrokes made with imprints of a no. 50 paintbrush repeated at perpendicular 30-centimeter intervals, was first presented at a debut in 1967 in Paris at an exhibition-performance at the Salon de la Jeune Peinture in the Musèe d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. The same year Toroni founded the BMPT art group together with Daniel Buren, Olivier Mosset, and Michel Parmentier. This group, which was a temporary gathering of four artists, whose intent was to raise critical questions about the meaning of pictorial activity, lay at the crossroads of Conceptual Art and Minimalism.
Toroni lays claim to the "degree zero of painting"; he defines painting as a gesture that does not cover a surface. His imprints usually have as their surface canvases on stretchers, walls of exhibition venues, and sometimes various other surfaces based on the restrictions of the premises in question. The link between work and context is accordingly quintessential.
Niele Toroni participated in documentas 7 (1982) and 9 (1992); and the Venice Biennale of 1976; São Paulo Art Biennial in 1991. His solo exhibitions included shows at Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Kleve, Germany in 2002; Niele Toroni: Histoires de Peinture at l'ARC/Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, in 2001; Musée Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, and Avignon 2000, France in 2000. Toroni's other venues included: Villa Arson, Nice and the Musée de Grenoble in 1987; Centre Georges Pompidou in 1991, and Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris in 1990; Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, and Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam in 1994; CAPC Musée d'Art Contemporain de Bordeaux in 1997; Base at Centro d'Arte, Florence and Niele Toroni, Siena Centro d'Arte Contemporani, Palazzo della Papesse, Siena in 1999. In 1995 Niele Toroni completed a Public Art Project on Rochdale Canal, Manchester, England.
His works are now represented by Yvon Lambert Gallery, Paris. Toroni's works are part of major collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Strasbourg Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Strasbourg; the Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin; the Kunstmuseum Luzern; Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich.
Imprints of a No. 50 Paintbrush Repeated at Regular Intervals of 30 cm.
Imprints of a No. 50 Paintbrush Repeated at Regular Intervals of 30 cm.
Imprints of a No. 50 Paintbrush Repeated at Regular Intervals of 30 cm.
Imprints of a No. 50 Paintbrush Repeated at Regular Intervals of 30 cm. (Imprints on Oil Cloth)
Imprints of a No. 50 Paintbrush Repeated at Regular Intervals of 30 cm.
Imprints of a No. 50 Paintbrush Repeated at Regular Intervals of 30 cm.
Imprints of paintbrush no. 50 repeated at regular intervals of 30 cm.
Imprints of paintbrush no. 50 repeated at regular intervals of 30 cm.
Imprints of paintbrush no. 50 repeated at regular intervals of 30 cm.
Imprints of paintbrush no. 50 repeated at regular intervals of 30 cm.
Imprints of paintbrush no. 50 repeated at regular intervals of 30 cm.
Imprints of paintbrush no. 50 repeated at regular intervals of 30 cm.
Imprints of paintbrush no. 50 repeated at regular intervals of 30 cm.