Author Information

Mario Volpe was born in 1936 in Barranquilla, Colombia. In 1961, he received his architecture diploma from the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh. He attended the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University and studied painting at the Art Students League of New York. He lived in Bern, Switzerland, from 1972 until his death in 2013. He had many solo and group exhibitions in America, Colombia, and Switzerland.

Book Description

The late artist described this book as follows: "My goal was to publish 50 years of my work, focusing on black and white, a very American medium of the fifties, not only among the pioneers of abstract expressionism but also with other masters in black and white such as Hartung, Miró, Masson, Léger, Capogrossi, Vedova, and many others. The idea, di.