Antonio Corpora

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Antonio Corpora (born August 15, 1909 in Tunis , Tunisia , † September 6, 2004 in Rome ) was an Italian painter.

Senza Titolo (untitled), 1957

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Antonio Corpora spent his childhood and youth in Tunis, where he studied with Armand Vergeaud at the local art school . In 1930 Corpora moved to Florence and began copying the old masters' paintings there. In 1931 Corpora moved to Paris and made artistic contacts with Alberto Giacometti and Sergio Signori . In the early 1930s he made further study trips to Italy and Tunisia. In 1934 he co-founded the artist group "Les quatres" in Tunisia. During the 1930s, his abstract style of painting was characterized by the use of stripes of color and geometric shapes.

In 1938/39 Corpora had a professorship for stage design in Bologna . During the Second World War Corpora lived and worked in Tunis. He returned to Italy in 1945. In the same year he co-founded the artist group Neo-cubista , together with Renato Guttuso , Pericle Fazzini and other artists. During this period, Corpora's images were heavily inspired by Georges Braque and Henri Matisse .

He joined the artist movement “ Fronte Nuovo delle Arti ”. After the “Fronte Nuovo delle Arti” split up, he founded the group “ Gruppo degli Otto ” in 1952 together with the artists Afro Basaldella , Ennio Morlotti , Renato Birolli , Emilio Vedova , Giuseppe Santomaso , Giulio Turcato and Mattia Moreni .

Towards the end of the 1940s and in the 1950s, painting Corporas found Abstract Expressionism and in the 1960s Art Informel . In the 1970s there are no more geometric shapes to be found in his pictures. From 1975 Corpora used a new technique of applying bright colors to canvases that had been roughened with plaster of paris and sand, until, towards the end of his life, he returned to the streaks in his paintings.

Antonio Corpora took part in the Venice Biennale four times between 1948 and 1956 . He was a participant in documenta 1 in 1955 and in documenta II in 1959 in Kassel . In 1968 he received several awards at the Rome Biennale.

In 2003 Antonio Corpora was appointed a member of the Accademia di San Luca in Rome. Antonio Corpora died on September 6, 2004 in Rome.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Archivio Antonio Corpora. In: www.antoniocorpora.it. Retrieved November 21, 2016 .
  2. ^ Antonio Corpora - Biography and Offers - Buy and Sell. In: www.kettererkunst.de. Retrieved November 21, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Corpora, Antonio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian painter
DATE OF BIRTH August 15, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Tunis , Tunisia
DATE OF DEATH September 6, 2004
Place of death Rome