Roberto Crippa

Gaetano Crippa known as Roberto Crippa, was an Italian painter, sculptor and aviator. He started to paint in 1945, with a figurative style and cubist influences close to Picasso's style, he joined the spatial movement with Lucio Fontana, Gian Carozzi and Giorgio Kaisserlian. Crippa's work, in the early fifties, was centered around a series of paintings called Spirals, a geometric and abstract nature: with the geometric gesture, Crippa created convoluted spaces, from which they generated rays that ideally projected themselves out of the two-dimensionality of the canvas, in line with the principles of the spatial "Manifesto". He was known for his works, so Crippa reached New York, where he met the Surrealist artists. In the seventies, Roberto Crippa was also involved in Postal art (mail art). One of his postcards, addressed to Eraldo Di Vita in Milan, is also published in his monograph.

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