Nunzio
Nunzio was born in 1954 in Cagnano Amiterno, in the province of L’Aquila. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, graduating in the class of Toti Scialoja. In 1973 he opened a studio in the former Cerere pasta factory in the Roman district of San Lorenzo, where Bruno Ceccobelli, Gianni Dessì, Giuseppe […]
Fausto Melotti
Slowly music has ensnared me, disciplining me with its laws, distractions and digressions in a balanced discourse”. Fausto Melotti was born in Rovereto (Trento) on the 8th of June 1901. In 1918 he enrolled in the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics at the University of Pisa, a course of studies that he continued at the […]
Georges Mathieu
Georges Mathieu was born on January 27, 1921, in Boulogne-sur-Mer, France. He moved to Versailles at age 12 and studied Greek, Russian, and Spanish at the Lycée Hoche. His education continued at a variety of institutions in Rouen, Cambrai, and Douai, all in France, where he entered law school in 1941. A self-taught painter, he […]
Hans Hartung
What I love is to act on the canvas. Acting means scratching, tearing, staining, invading the canvas with colour, in short, everything that is not ‘painting’. Hans Hartung was born in 1904 in Leipzig, Germany. He studied philosophy and history of art at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Leipzig and then Dresden, before moving […]
Piero Dorazio
In the language of artists, painting is a way of writing history. Piero Dorazio was born in Rome in 1927. After studying architecture, at the age of 20, he turned to painting through his association with Aldo Bendinelli’s studio, becoming interested in abstraction in the following years. In 1946, he participated in the Gruppo Arte […]