Marca-Relli by Daniel Giralt-Miracle, 1976. Published by Ediciones Poligrafa, Barcelona. First Edition in Original Mylar Cover.

Although a major figure in the New York school, Conrad Marca-Relli (1913-2000) remains an anomaly within it, set apart by his adherence to the figure as a means to abstraction and by years of living in both Europe and New York. He had a strong affinity to his Italian heritage, drawing influence from Alberto Burri, Giorgio de Chirico, Giorgio Morandi, Paolo Uccello, and others, as well as from Italian Renaissance architecture.

Marca-Relli is best known for his monumental collage paintings. Although the precise nature of his shift to collage is debated among scholars, his second trip to Mexico in 1952 played a pivotal role—perhaps because of a lack of paint or his fascination with the play of light on adobe houses (both have been cited as sources of his first foray into collage). From 1955 to 1958, Marca-Relli created a series of expressive collage action paintings that conveyed a dynamism characteristic of Abstract Expressionism. After 1961 he began to experiment with other materials in his collages, such as synthetic plastics and metals.

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