Émile Gilioli
Émile Gilioli (born June 10, 1911 in Paris , France , † January 19, 1977 ibid) was a French sculptor and designer of Italian descent. He is one of the most important sculptors of abstract art after the Second World War and was one of the most important representatives of lyrical abstraction in French sculpture.
Life
Émile Gilioli was born in Paris in 1911 to an Italian family, but spent his childhood in Italy . From 1928 on he worked as an apprentice to a blacksmith and at the same time took evening courses at the School for Decorative Arts in Nice . In 1931 he received a scholarship and began studying at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris . In 1937 he worked on the decoration of a pavilion at the 1937 World's Fair in Paris. Émile Gilioli had his first solo exhibition in Grenoble in 1941 .
In the 1940s he created church sculptures and monumental memorials for memorials, mainly in the Isère department and in the Rhône-Alpes region . These include the monument in Voreppe from 1945, the monument to the deportees in the Isère département from 1949 and the monument to the martyrs in Vercors from 1951.
In 1945 he finally moved to Paris and exhibited in the Salons Realité Nouvelle as part of the Denise René gallery . He became a founding member of the Salons de jeune Sculpture and vice-president of the group led by André Bloc . In 1958 he exhibited at the Louis Carré gallery . In 1957 he received the great sculpture prize of the city of Carrara and in 1958 the prize for tapestry at the Biennale of São Paulo in 1958. In 1959 he received the great prize for the arts of the city of Paris and was a participant in documenta 2 in Kassel in the sculpture department . In 1974 he successfully took part in the competition for the design of the monument to Dag Hammarskjöld .
His artistic work is characterized by three important aspects: the Mediterranean character of his art, the personal conception of an organic sculpture and the goal of realizing a habitable sculpture. He realized the latter in 1973 in his most important work: the Monument national à la Résistance du plateau des Glières , inaugurated by André Malraux , on the Plateau des Glieres , which commemorates the Resistance fighters who died in the battle there on March 26, 1944 .
literature
- Exhibition catalog for documenta II (1959) in Kassel: II.documenta'59. Art after 1945 . Catalog: Volume 1: Painting; Volume 2: Sculpture; Volume 3: Graphic Art; Text tape. Kassel / Cologne 1959
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gilioli, Émile |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gilioli, Emile |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French sculptor and designer of Italian descent |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 10, 1911 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris , France |
| DATE OF DEATH | 19th January 1977 |
| Place of death | Paris , France |