SIMONETTA  JUNG               

Simonetta Jung (Palermo 1917 - Brussels 2005)
​Member of the "Movimento Arte Concreta - Gruppo Spaziale"

Exhibition in New York at Duveen-Graham Gallery, 1955

"Futurist Composition" 1958, oil on canvas, 55 x 70 cm

Milano, 1961 with the painting ordered by President and Mrs JF Kennedy for the White House

"Idea materia" 1961, oil on canvas, 90 x 150 cm (sold)

"Tensione Formativa" 1968, oil on canvas (sold)

"Tensione Formativa"​ 1969, oil on canvas (sold)

"Homo Novus no 15", acrylic on canvas, 75 x 110 cm
Exhibited at Galleria Nuovo Sagittario, Milan 1976 & Unesco house Paris, 1984

"Homo Novus no 16" 1974, acrylic on canvas, 75 x 110 cm
​Exhibited at Galleria Nuovo Sagittario Milano, 1976

"Homo Novus 20"​ 1974, acrylic on canvas, 80 x 100 cm

"Homo Novus no 57" 1976, acrylic on canvas, 50 x 60 cm

"Homo Novus no 61" 1976, acrylic on canvas, 70 x 80 cm

"Homo Novus no 77" 1977, acrylic on canvas, 150 x 107 cm

"Elountha no 20" 1980, mixed media on canvas, 108 x 90 cm
​Exhibited at the Unesco house in Paris, 1984

"Elountha no 21" 1980, mixed media on canvas, 152 x 118 cm
The Elountha (a village in Crete) series are painted on the back of each canvas

"Elountha 25" 1980, mixed media on canvas, 72 x 92 cm

"Anthroposcopy" 1983, mixed media on canvas, 52 x 72 cm
​Exhibited at the Unesco house in Paris, 1984

Opening of the S. Jung exhibition at Group 2 Gallery in 1996 under the patronage of italian Ambassador Francesco  Corrias

Jeannine Lenaerts, Brussels Region Minister President Charles Picqué & Simonetta Jung at Group 2 Gallery, 1996

Simonetta Jung was born in Palermo, Sicily, in 1917. During her studies her favorite subjects were Art History, Philosophy and, above all, Science. Later she took a particular interest in the memoirs of Einstein, who foresaw the possibility that, through the intuition of artists, abstract art would be able to express complex and hard to perceive interstellary relations. With her so called "Forme-Luce" (1949-1956) paintings she held her first personal exhibition in 1954 in Milano, where she met Lucio Fontana, who called her paintings “spatial art”. She became a member of the Movimento Arte Concreta – Gruppo Spaziale. In 1955 she held solo exhibitions in Florence, Venice, Rome and in the famous Duveen-Graham Gallery in Madison Ave, New York. Her work entered into important american collections and museums. Jung creates a second cycle, called "Tensioni Formative" (1958-1971), closely related to abstract expressionism and Cobra. The artist states that the “Forme-Luce” and “Tensioni Formative” series represent the moments “before” and “after” the creation of earth respectively, hereby referring to the theories of Plato. After moving to San Francisco, the artist starts a new cycle of works entitled "Homo Novus" (1972-1979), symbolizing the human being turning into a robot. By the end of the seventies, she again altered her style, starting the "Elountha” series. Although her work has been crystallized in various distinct periods, they are in fact organically linked by a slow natural evolution. Works of Simonetta Jung are found in European and American private collections and museums : Columbia University, NY; Minneapolis Institute of Arts; Bruce Museum, Greenwich; Pratt Institute, Brooklyn; Stanford University Museum, CA; Brandeis University Museum, MA etc.
A fine book about Simonetta Jung by art historian Serge Goyens de Heusch was published in 1981.
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