Emilio Vedova
Emilio Vedova (born August 9, 1919 in Venice , † October 25, 2006 in Venice) was an Italian Informel painter .
life and work
Emilio Vedova worked from 1930 to 1935 for a photographer, a restorer and also temporarily as a factory worker. In addition, the evening school for art at the Scuole Grande attended the Carmini. Between 1936 and 1943 he alternated between Rome , Venice and Florence .
In 1942 he joined the anti-fascist artist and literature group "Corrente". Renato Birolli (1905–1959), Renato Guttuso (1911–1987), Ennio Morlotti (1910–1992) and Umberto Vittorini (1890–1979) also belonged to this artist association . In 1946, together with Ennio Morlotti, he published the “Oltre Guernica” manifesto. In the same year he co-founded the group Fronte Nuovo delle Arti , which, after the experience of the fascist years, sought a renewal of Italian art. A short time later, in 1952, he became a member of the Gruppo degli Otto . During this time Emilio Vedova developed into one of the main exponents of the Italian Informel painting of the 1950s and early 1960s. In the mid-1950s he turned completely to abstract painting. After a geometric phase, I turned to gestural-spontaneous informal painting.
Emilio Vedova first took part in the Venice Biennale in 1947 together with several members of the “Corrente” group. In 1955 he was a participant in documenta 1 for the first time and in 1959 again a participant in documenta 2 in Kassel . In 1960 he received the Grand Prize of the Venice Biennale. He was also a participant in documenta III 1964 and documenta 7 1982 in Kassel. In 1993 he was awarded an Antonio Feltrinelli Prize . In 1984 and 1986 the Museo Correr in Venice and the Bavarian State Painting Gallery in Munich dedicated a large retrospective to him.
Emilio Vedova died on October 25, 2006 at the age of 87 in his hometown of Venice.
literature
- Emilio Vedova. 1919-2006. Publication for the exhibition in the Berlinische Galerie . Berlin, January 25 - April 20, 2008; previously in Rome, Galleria d'arte moderna, October 7, 2007 - January 6, 2008. Edited by Angelandreina Rorro and Alessandra Barbuto. Electa Verlag, Milan, 2007. With texts by Alessandra Barbuto, Massimo Cacciari, Maria Vittoria Marini Clarelli, Fabrizio Gazzarri, Katharina Hausel, Jörn Merkert and Angelandreina Rorro (in German and English or Italian and English). 290 p., With numerous, mostly full-page illustrations; ISBN 978-88-370-5550-9
- Giulio Argan et al. a .: Emilio Vedova. Absurd Berliner Tagebuch '64: The donation to the Berlinische Galerie. , Berlin 2002; ISBN 3-927873-82-9
- Werner Haftmann (transl., Afterwards): Emilio Vedova: Leaves from the diary , Munich 1960
- Wieland Schmied : Presence and Eternity. Traces of the transcendent in the art of our time , Martin-Gropius-Bau , Berlin April 7 to June 24, 1990, Edition Cantz, Stuttgart 1990; ISBN 3-89322-179-4
- Emilio Vedova / Germano Celant: Emilio Vedova , edited by Carla Schulz-Hoffmann a. a., Munich 1986; ISBN 3-7774-4170-8
- Biography of Emilio Veova, Dorotheum gallery and auction house; in: https://www.dorotheum.com/de/k/emilio-vedova
Web links
- Literature by and about Emilio Vedova in the catalog of the German National Library
- Materials by and about Emilio Vedova in the documenta archive
- Additional information on Emilio Vedova
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Vedova, Emilio |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian painter of the Informel |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 9, 1919 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Venice |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 25, 2006 |
| Place of death | Venice |