Emilio Vedova
Emilio Vedova was born on August 9, 1919, in Venice. Self-taught as an artist he attended for a short period the evening decoration classes at the Carmini school. Around 1942 he joined the group Corrente, which also included Renato Birolli, Renato Guttuso, Ennio Morlotti, and Umberto Vittorini. Vedova participated in the Resistance movement from 1943. […]
Victor Vasarely
Victor Vasarely was born on April 9, 1906, in Pécs, Hungary. In 1927, after studying medicine at Budapest University for two years, he left school to devote himself to art. In 1929 he enrolled at Mühely, a school founded by Alexandre Bortnyik and based on the principles of the Dessau Bauhaus. It was during this […]
Giulio Turcato
Colour, together with sign, is the main part of painting. Interpretation and its way of being make the painting. Giulio Turcato was born in Mantua in 1912 and died in Rome in 1995. He moved to Venice in 1925 where he attended the Liceo Artistico and, occasionally, the Scuola Libera del Nudo, as he was […]
Salvo
I have literally been conquered by painting: it is something that opens spaces for me, it opens my knowledge, my mind. Born in Leonforte, in the province of Enna, in 1947, Salvo (Salvatore Mangione) spent his childhood in Sicily, before his family emigrated to Turin in 1956. Here he expressed a precocious interest in art […]
Arnaldo Pomodoro
Arnaldo Pomodoro was born in Montefeltro in 1926 and spent his childhood and education in Pesaro. He lives and works in Milan since 1954. Pomodoro’s works from the Fifties are high-reliefs, in which emerges a singular form of “writing” previously unknown in sculpture, which aroused the interest of Italy’s most prominent art critics. In the […]