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Looking Up (laboriously)

Vinicio Berti 1984

This painting is one of the ten works that came into the municipal collections in 2007 thanks to Maria Pia Liberia Pini, companion and sole heir of the painter who died in 1991. Remaining the owner of the artist's paintings and certain of expressing his wishes, she decided to donate this important collection of paintings to the City of Prato. The donation took place following the exhibition dedicated to Vinicio Berti that was held that same year in the municipal spaces known as the “Antiche Stanze di Santa Caterina”, under the condition that the paintings were exhibited in a place open to the public.

Technical information

Author: Vinicio Berti
Title: Looking Up (laboriously)
Date: 1984
Material and technique: Synthetic tempera on wood
Size: 200x121,5 cm
Location: Palazzo Pretorio Museum
First Floor

In the 1980s, Vinicio Berti devoted himself to the ‘Looking Up’ cycle, a kind of spiritual testament where the depiction of buildings vertiginously tending towards the sky arouses the idea of continuous becoming. The works exhibited here from this series include “Looking Up (lucidly)”, “Looking Up (laboriously)” and “Looking Up (grandly)”, painted solely with black and white lines.