galerie yoramgil is proud to present One of Each: A Retrospective an exhibition of work by painter and sculptor Enrico Donati. This Exhibition will run from March 18, 2006 through June 30, 2006. A special reception will take place on Saturday, June 3, 2006 from 6:00pm to 8:00pm.

An American painter and sculptor of Italian birth Donati studied economics at the Universita degli Studi, Pavia, and in 1934 moved to the USA, where he attended the New School for Social Research and the Art Students' League in New York. His first one-man shows were in New York in 1942, at the New School for Social Research and the Passedoit Gallery. At this stage he was clearly drawn to Surrealism. This was reinforced by meeting Andre Breton and coming into contact with Duchamp and the other European Surrealists in New York at the time.

Donati was one of the organizers of the Exposition internationale du Surrealisme held in Paris in the summer of 1947, to which he contributed a painting and two sculptures. In the late 1940s he responded to the crisis in Surrealism by going through a Constructivist phase, from which he developed a calligraphic style and drew on to melted tar, or diluted paint with turpentine. He also became associated with Spazialismo founded by Lucio Fontana. Thus began his long fascination with surface and texture.

The fossil became a major theme for Donati through the 1960s, and he gave new importance to color in his Fossil works, an example is in his Red Yellow Fossil. In 1961 he was given a major retrospective at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels and frequently exhibited at group shows in the USA and elsewhere. He held a number of important teaching and advisory posts, including Visiting Lecturer at Yale University (1962