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Carmengloria Morales

Sat, 14 May 2016 21:11:16 +0000

Gianfranco Meggiato

Mon, 08 Feb 2016 14:18:02 +0000

Gianfranco Meggiato was born in Venice in 1963, where he attended the Istituto Statale d’Arte, studying stone, bronze, wood and ceramic sculpture. At the invitation of the Municipality of Venice, he exhibited his works at a very young age (at 16 and 21) at the Galleria Comunale Bevilacqua La Masa in St Mark’s Square in Venice, where he showed sculptures in stone and semi-refractory material.
The work of Meggiato looks to the masters of the 900: Brancusi for its research of the essentiality, Moore for internal-external relationship of it maternity and Calder for the openness of his work in space. The space enters his work and the vacuum becomes important when it is full. His works are inspired by biomorphic tissues, symbol of the rough path of humans who are trying to find themselves which ultimately find the precious sphere in the center of the artwork. Meggiato thus creates the concept of intro-sculpture in which the sight of the observer is attracted towards the interior of the work, without limitations to the external surfaces. “Formally, space and light do not delimitate the work, but penetrate inside wrapping the reticula and knots, reaching and illuminating the central sphere as an ideal point of arrival.”
Since 1998 Gianfranco Meggiato has participated without interruption in a long series of exhibitions, shows and fairs in Italy and abroad. In recent years, he has been invited to take part to the 54th and the 55th Venice Biennale, where he has exhibited among national partecipations. Meggiato has exhibited at Correr Museum in St Mark’s Square in Venice, at National Museum of Musical Instruments in Rome, at Senate Palace in Milan and in Duomo Square in Pietrasanta. In 2012, during Art-Bre exhibition in Cap Martin, he created and presented to Albert II, Prince of Monaco, Sphere Enigma now placed in the Monaco Harbor. In 2014 he exhibited in a solo show at the Center of Contemporary Art in Lucca and in the collective Disquiet Novecento: Vedova, Vasarely, Christo, Cattelan, Hirst and the genesis of the third millennia. The work of Meggiato is present in several exhibitions and fairs in USA, Canada, UK, Denmark, Germany, Belgium, Holland, France, Austria, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal, Monaco, Ukraine, Russia, India, China, UAE, Kuwait, South Korea, Singapore, Taipei and Australia.

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Jean-Paul Riopelle

Wed, 02 Sep 2015 07:24:49 +0000

Jean-Paul Riopelle was born in Montreal on October 7, 1923. He studied painting with Henri Bisson and in 1943 he enrolled at the Ecole du Meuble in Montreal. In 1945 Riopelle began a close association with his instructor Paul-Emile Borduras, and other Canadian avant-garde artists who formed the Automatiste group. That year he also traveled to Paris on a Canadian Government Fellowship. In 1946 the artist visited New York, Where his work was included in the International Surrealist Exhibition and where he met Hayter, Miró and Lipchitz.
Riopelle settled in Paris in 1947, where he soon met Pierre Loeb and André Breton. He also made the acquaintance of many of the artists involves with art informel, including Georges Mathieu, Wols and Hans Hartung. In 1948 the Automatiste manifesto Refus global, which Riopelle signed, was published. Beginning in that year he participated regularly in the Salon de Mai. In 1949 he was represented in the Salon des Surindépendants and was given his first one-man exhibition, at the Galerie Nina Dausset. Additional Riopelle shows followed in Paris. He participated in the São Paolo Bienal in 1951 and 1955, receiving an Honorable Mention at the latter. In 1954 and again in 1962 Riopelle was included in the Venice Biennale. Also in 1954 the first of many Riopelle shows was held at the Pierre Matisse Gallery in New York.
In 1958 Riopelle received an Honorable Mention at the Guggenheim Museum’s Guggenheim International Award exhibition and a major retrospective of his work was held at the Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne. Also that year the artist began to make bronze sculpture, which he exhibited for the first time at the Galerie Jacques Dubourg, Paris, in 1962. Retrospectives of Riopelle’s work held in the early 1970s include those at the Fondation Maeght, Saint Paul-de-Vence, France, in 1971, and at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris the following year. In 1977 the artist began his black and white Iceberg series of paintings. Two years later he commenced work on a ceramic wall for the Fondation Maeght, which he completed in 1981. When his wife, the artist Joan Mitchell, died in 1992, Riopelle dedicated to her his Hommage à Rosa Luxemburg, a work composed of three big canvases. Soon after the artist would stop painting completely. Riopelle died in Île aux Grues, Quebec, on March 12, 2002.

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Serge Poliakoff

Wed, 02 Sep 2015 07:22:39 +0000

Gianni Piacentino

Wed, 02 Sep 2015 07:22:19 +0000