Ingo AVOLTA

Title: Abstract composition
Medium: Color Serigraph – Artist’s Proof (EA)
Signature: Hand-signed in pencil lower right
Dimensions: 30 × 42 cm (without margins); 32 × 50 cm (with margins)

Description and Critical Analysis of the Work

In this print, Ingo Avolta unfolds a visual language built on the interplay of geometric forms and chromatic tension. Vertical bands of orange and yellow, like columns of light, collide with green planes that feel more organic, evoking both stylized waves and vegetal fragments. The preserved white of the paper acts as a breath, a space of silence that energizes the composition.

The work’s density is counterbalanced by a sense of harmony: the rigor of the vertical structures contrasts with the fluidity of the rounded shapes. The viewer’s eye is carried in a constant back-and-forth, oscillating between architectural construction and natural movement. It reads as an attempt to translate rhythm—almost musical—where color becomes vibration and form becomes pulse.

This print exemplifies the spirit of postwar graphic modernism: an exploration of lyrical abstraction that surpasses simple geometric experiment to reach a sensitive, almost poetic dimension.

Biographical Note – Ingo Avolta

A discreet and little-documented artist, Ingo Avolta belongs to the lineage of printmakers and visual artists who embraced the print medium as a privileged field of experimentation. His work explores the relationship between color, rhythm, and structure.

Avolta’s plastic research reflects a dual influence: on the one hand, the geometric abstraction inherited from the constructivist avant-gardes; on the other, a taste for organic energy and fluid forms, closer to lyrical abstraction. Positioned at the intersection of these two traditions, his art combines order with freedom.

Each of Avolta’s compositions bears the mark of a hand attentive to the balance between surface and depth, between rigor and spontaneity. His practice of printmaking and the use of bold color planes make him a singular representative of contemporary print art, whose works captivate with their rhythmic intensity and chromatic freshness.