Giorgio de Chirico
Everything has two aspects: the current aspect, which we see nearly always and which ordinary men see, and the ghostly and metaphysical aspect, which only rare individuals may see in moments of clairvoyance and metaphysical abstraction… Giorgio de Chirico was born to Italian parents in Vólos, Greece in 1888 and in 1900 began to study […]
Felice Casorati
One must look for what is exceptional in the true. Felice Casorati was born on December 4, 1883, in Novara, Italy.Casorati’s family frequently relocated during his childhood as his father, Francesco, was in the military, until they settled in Padua in 1895. In Padua, Casorati pursued studied law, obtaining his degree in July 1906 while […]
Giuseppe Capogrossi
My ambition is to help people see what their eyes don’t: the perspective of the space in which their opinions and actions originate. Giuseppe Capogrossi was born in Rome on the 7 March 1900. He graduated with a degree in Law but devoted his entire life to painting. In 1923, he attended Felice Carena’s Free […]
Giacomo Balla
I’ve always painted I’m painting / I will paint until the last moment Giacomo Balla was born in Turin on 18 July 1871. He trained at the Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti and the Liceo Artistico in Turin and in 1891 exhibited for the first time in an exhibition sponsored by the Società Promotrice di […]
Enrico Baj
Enrico Baj was born in Milan in 1924 and became one of Italy’s best-known artists. Baj was also a prolific essayist and polemicist, with his artistic practice navigating the 1950s and 60s, alongside the likes of Fontana, Manzoni and Klein, forging relations with the Cobra group, Duchamp, as well as the exponents of Nouveau Réalisme […]