Agostino Bonalumi (b. 1935)

‘With his Extroflexions, Bonalumi succeeded in making artistic creations that are, in the strongest sense of the terms, identical autonomous objects, factually given and formally self-contained, encompassing space, colour, light and shadow, without making them fictive, illusionary depictions. At the same time, though, these objects are also beautiful in an ideal sense: they are of such untainted perfection that they approach the absolute’
(K. Wolbert, quoted in ‘Agostino Bonalumi’, in Agostino Bonalumi, exh. cat., Institut Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt, 2003, p. 22).