by Eleonora Del Federico

The Department of Mathematics and Science at Pratt Institute has organized an exhibition of the avant-garde work of Professor Emeritus of Fine Arts, Licio Isolani that he recently donated to the department fulfilling one of his passions: the intersection of Science and Art. Mr. Isolani is a pioneer in the exploration of plastics and modern polymeric materials as they were becoming available from industry in the mid-1950s and 60s and his artworks at the time included sculptures made of fiberglass, colored resins, and paintings on gilded surfaces made of metallic and transparent pigments.

This donation is key to our department's Science and Art program which is dedicated to the study and degradation of artists' materials. Plastics and polymers used by modern artists are an increasingly important area of research in Art Conservation because many of these modern artworks are decaying faster than traditional paintings or sculptures. Interestingly, Isolani joined Pratt not as a teacher but as a researcher to experiment with these very modern materials in 1964.

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Fonte: La Voce di New York