Mirko: Archetype and Mythology, 1937-1968

NYU’s Italian culture center continues to explore contemporary Italian art by bringing to the American public one of the most significant artists of this prolific era, Mirko Basaldella (Mirko).

"Like words, shapes acquire their own meaning depending on the feelings they inspire, they are organized into patterns and systems and boosted in their emotional potential. Ideas are no longer made of words Because the constituent elements are lines, planes, conflicts of forms, Bitter-sweet agreements, feelings of escapes, and precipitations pacifications. Full and empty spaces become the dominant issue, like good and evil, black and white, the conscious and unconscious.”—Mirko in 1955