Giuseppe Ducrot

Giuseppe Ducrot (born September 4, 1966 in Rome ) is an Italian sculptor .

Life

Born in 1966, Ducrot began his artistic activity with tempera painting and black and white drawings . During his military service he painted series of portraits of his comrades. After a phase of experimentation, including in the workshops of the figurative painter Giovanni Colacicchi and the sculptor Vito Cipolla , Ducrot finally turned to sculpture. Despite a few excursions into abstraction, the artist orientated himself stylistically in most of his oeuvre on the sculptures of the Roman Empire and Hellenism as well as on the baroque sculpture . He works in clay, glazed ceramics, marble and cast bronze. In addition to numerous bozzetti , Ducrot's work includes monument conservation projects as well as church and private commissioned works.

Since 2013 Ducrot has been a member of the Pontifical Academy of Fine Arts and Literature , Sculpture Class. He lives and works in Rome.

Works (selection)

So far, Ducrot's main works are:

• 1995 Bust of Marcus Aurelius for the facade of the Galleria Borghese , Rome
• 1996 Thermal bath of nymphs for the Piazza Capo di Ferro, Rome
• 1999 Bust reliquary (bronze) of Saint Filippo Neri for the Basilica of San Giovanni Battista dei Fiorentini , Rome
• 2000 cornucopias and Bacchus -Urne for the Galleria Borghese , Rome
• 2000 Altar, ambo and statue of St. Benedict for the Cathedral of Nursia
• 2009 Monumental statue of Saint Benedict in Cassino (Latium)
• 2010 Monumental statue of Saint Annibale Maria Di Francia by order of the Congregation of the Rogationists of the Heart of Jesus , outside niche of St. Peter's Basilica , Rome
• 2011 Altar, ambo and crucifix for the Cathedral of Noto , Sicily
• 2012 Statue of John the Baptist for the Basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri , Rome
• 2015 Fountain, Le Sirenuse, Positano (Amalfi)
• 2017 Evangelist Matthäus, Theatinerkirche, Munich

literature

• Achille Bonito Oliva : Giuseppe Ducrot, sculture 1992 - 1994 (exhibition catalog, Galleria Carlo Virgilio), Rome 1995.
• Alberto Abruzzese, Marco Tullio Giordana : Giuseppe Ducrot, ritratti per I cento passi , Rome 2000.
• Achille Bonito Oliva: Giuseppe Ducrot (exhibition catalog, ARCO February 20 - May 10, 2015), Rome 2015

Web links

• Homepage of Giuseppe Ducrot

Individual evidence

1. ↑ . See Marco Vallora, La 'well' in nero e pastello in Il Giornale, April 11, 1991.
2. ↑ Compiled from Ducrot, Giuseppe , in: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana Treccani , Lessico del XXI Secolo (2012); and Achille Bonito Oliva, Giuseppe Ducrot (exhibition catalog, ARCO February 20 - May 10, 2015), Rome 2015, p. 142.
3. ↑ In detail: Achille Bonito Oliva 2015, pp. 134–139.
4. ↑ See Alfonso Feola, La statua bronzea di San Benedetto a coronamento di una nuova rotaria , in: GazzettaRegionale, July 12, 2015.
5. ↑ See The Pope blesses the statue of St Hannibal Mary , in: L'Osservatore Romano , July 8, 2010; Benedizione della statua di Sant'Annibale Maria di Francia - 7 luglio 2010 , in: La Basilica di S. Pietro 22/7 (2010), pp. 1–2.
6. ↑ See The Restless Concern of the Forerunner of Jesus, A new statue by Giuseppe Ducrot in the Basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri , in: L'Osservatore Romano , June 22, 2012.
7. ↑ See Alyssa Bird, The Most Attractive New Bar on the Amalfi Coast , in: Architectural Digest , July 31, 2015.
8. ↑ See Jakob Wetzel, Resurrection in the Theatinerkirche , in: Süddeutsche Zeitung (online), May 3, 2017.