Giulio Turcato
Giulio Turcato (born March 16, 1912 in Mantua , Italy , † January 22, 1995 in Rome , Italy) was an Italian painter and sculptor .
Giulio Turcato attended several art schools in Venice from 1920 to 1926 . In 1934 he completed his military service in Sicily . He moved to Milan in 1939 and to Rome in 1943. Turcato was active in the Resistance . In 1945 Turcato co-founded the artist group “Art Club”, in 1946 the “ Fronte Nuovo delle Arti ” and in 1947 the “ Forma 1 ”.
After the “ Fronte Nuovo delle Arti ” split up , in 1952 he founded the group “ Gruppo degli Otto ” together with the artists Afro Basaldella , Ennio Morlotti , Renato Birolli , Emilio Vedova , Giuseppe Santomaso , Antonio Corpora and Mattia Moreni . In 1950 Turcato went on a study trip to Paris. In 1958 he was a participant in the Venice Biennale and in 1959 in documenta II in Kassel . In 1973 he exhibited at the São Paulo Biennale .
Turcato created pictures, polychrome picture objects and sculptures and also designed some stage sets for operas, also for an opera he composed: "Turcato / Moduli in viola / Ommaggio a Kandinsky".
Turcato's early painting moves in the form of expression between abstraction and objectivity. In the 1950s Turcato developed his own style with a "linear-calligraphic" style of painting in the expression of "surrealist automatism".
Literature and Sources
- Cornelia Stabenow (Ed.): Giulio Turcato . Staatsgalerie Moderner Kunst, Munich 1985 (catalog for the exhibition of the same name from January 25 to March 10, 1985).
- Giorgio de Marchis / Ugo Pirro [Testi]; Giulio Turcato. Opere inedite e rare. [Catalog n. 1. / A cura della Galleria Anna D'Ascanio]. Rome / Roma, Galleria Anna D'Ascanio 2000.
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| SURNAME | Turcato, Giulio |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian painter and sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 16, 1912 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mantua , Italy |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 22, 1995 |
| Place of death | Rome , Italy |