Luigi Veronesi

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Luigi Veronesi (born May 28, 1908 in Milan , † February 25, 1998 ibid) was an Italian photographer , painter , set designer and film director .

Life

Luigi Veronesi began his artistic activity in the 1920s by training as a textile draftsman. He was accompanied by Raffaello Giolli introduced to a group of Italian intellectuals in the circle of the journal Poligono worked. At the age of twenty he became interested in painting and attended courses with the Neapolitan painter Carmelo Violante, then a teacher at the Accademia Carrara in Bergamo , Italy. In 1932 he traveled to Paris and met Fernand Léger . His first works, which were still figurative, were presented in the gallery il Milione in Milan . Veronesi later began to explore abstract art . In 1934 he made a joint exhibition with Josef Albers in the Il Milione gallery . In the same year he became a member of the Abstraction-Création group in Paris , he experimented constructivism and adopted the Bauhaus method. On March 4, 1935, he took part in the first collective exhibition of Italian abstract art in the studio of the painters Felice Casorati and Enrico Paolucci in Turin . The participants, which included Oreste Bogliardi, Cristoforo De Amicis, Ezio D'Errico, Lucio Fontana , Virginio Ghiringhelli, Osvaldo Licini , Fausto Melotti, Mauro Reggiani and Atanasio Soldati, signed the "Manifesto of the first exhibition on Italian abstract art" . In 1936 Veronesi was the illustrator of a geometry textbook by Leonardo Sinisgalli, he exhibited in the triennale in Milan and took part in an abstract exhibition in the city of Como , together with Lucio Fontana, Virginio Ghiringhelli, Osvaldo Licini, Alberto Magnelli , Fausto Melotti, Enrico Prampolini , Mario Radice, Mauro Reggiani, Manlio Rho, and Atanasio Soldati. In 1939 he exhibited in the Gallerie L'Equipe in Paris.

Veronesi was also active in the theater and later in the cinema and produced nine experimental and abstract films between 1938 and 1980, seven of which were destroyed during the Second World War. In 1938 he took part in the stage design exhibition in Rome . In 1942 he designed the stage for Riccardo Malipiero's opera Minnie la candida . As a set designer, he worked with Giorgio Strehler , the founder of the Piccolo Teatro in Milan, in particular in works by Luigi Pirandello , and he designed various stages for La Scala in Milan until the 1980s.

After the Second World War he was a founding member of the photography group “La Bussola”. He took part in the Arte astratta arte concreta exhibition in the Royal Palace (Milan) in 1947 and joined the Movimento Arte Concreta (MAC) in Milan in 1949 .

He taught graphic design in Venice from 1963 to 1979 and later color theory at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Brera (Milan).

During the 1980s, the Veronesi's activities were very diverse. He took part in an exhibition on abstract art as part of the 33rd Biennale di Venezia ; exhibited in Bolzano in 1980 and in Pordenone , Italy in 1984. In 1983 he was awarded an Antonio Feltrinelli Prize . Veronesi was the co-author of the book written together with Giancarlo Pauletto in 1989 about the Italian artist Genesio De Gottardo.

Luigi Veronesi was a polyvalent and eclectic artist who was able to synthesize the various currents of the avant-garde in Europe.

Retrospective exhibitions

Fonts

  • with Giancarlo Pauletto: Genesio De Gottardo. Edizioni d'Arte, Pordenone 1989.

literature

  • Luigi Veronesi (= Colección Los Grandes Fotógrafos. Volume 39). Ediciones Orbis, Madrid 1990, ISBN 84-7530-188-6 .
  • Klaus Holbert: Luigi Veronesi. Rationalistic abstractions. 1927-1996. Institute Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt, Mazzotta 1997.
  • Veronesi, Luigi. In: Paloma Castellanos: Diccionario histórico de la fotografía. Ediciones Istmo, Madrid 1999, p. 222.
  • Osvaldo Patani: Luigi Veronesi. Catalogo generale dell'opera grafica (1927–1983). Ed. Allemandi, Turin 1983.
  • Mario Pasi (texts) and Mauro Bini (eds.): Luigi Veronesi: opere per la scena. Microbrera Gallery, 1994.
  • Osvaldo Patani: 15 disegni di Luigi Veronesi. Edizioni del Milione, Milan 1961.
  • Giancarlo Pauletto: Luigi Veronesi. Edizioni d'Arte, Pordenone 1984.
  • Silvia Pegoraro: Luigi Veronesi. Mazzotta, Milan 2005.
  • Piero Quaglino: Veronesi. In: Artisti contemporanei. Essegi edizioni, Ravenna 1983.
  • Mario Verdone: I film astratti di Veronesi. In Bianco e Nero. No. XXVI, February 2, 1965.

Works related to Veronesi:

  • Guido Ballo: La linea dell'arte italiana dal simbolismo alle opere moltiplicate. Ed. Mediterranee, Rome 1965.
  • Gian Piero Brunetta: Storia del cinema italiano. Vol. 1. Editori Riuniti, Rome 1979.
  • Luciano Caramel: Aspetti del primo astrattismo italiano 1930-1940. Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna, Monza 1969.
  • Maurizio Fagiolo Dell'Arco: Sull'astrattismo in Italia negli anni trenta. Catalog of the Musée Municipal by S. Paul de Vence, 1970.
  • Paolo Fossati: L'immagine sospesa: Pittura e scultura astratte in Italia, 1934-40. Einaudi, Turin 1971.
  • Mario Verdone: Le avanguardie storiche del cinema. Sei, Turin 1977.

Web links

Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Veronesi, Luigi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian photographer, film director, set designer, painter and draftsman
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Milan , Italy
DATE OF DEATH February 25, 1998
Place of death Milan , Italy