Niele Toroni

Niele Toroni

Born in:

1937

Nationality:

Swiss

Birthplace:

Muralto-Locarno, Switzerland

Based in:

Switzerland

Biography:

Niele Toroni pioneered a practice called “Travail-Peinture” which entails marking a surface with imprints of a no. 50 paintbrush at regular 30 cm intervals. Executed on diverse surfaces such as canvas, cloth, gallery walls, and floors, Toroni’s works are both paintings and painterly interventions into space. Each marking is distinct and yet all the markings are the same, transforming the experience of spaces and creating a field in which formal tensions between uniformity and difference, repetition and spontaneity emerge.




Empreintes du pinceau n°50 à intervalles de 30 cm (untitled)

1972


Acrylic on paper


45.6 x 35.5 cm



Empreintes de pinceau N°50 répétées à intervalles réguliers de 30 cm

1971


Acrylic on paper


65 × 75 cm