Nino Franchina

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Nino Franchina (born June 25, 1912 in Palmanova , Province of Udine , Italy , † 1987 in Rome ) was an Italian sculptor . He is one of the most important representatives of modern art after the Second World War .

Life

Sculpture in the Piazza del Comune di Spoleto (1962)

Nino Franchina was the child of an old Sicilian family. He graduated from the Accademia di Belle Arti in Palermo in 1934 . In 1936 he exhibited together with three other Sicilian artists, Renato Guttuso , Giovanni Barbera and Lia Pasqualino , for the first time in the Galleria Il Milione in Milan . The four founded the artist group “ Gruppo dei Quattro ”.

In 1939 he married Gina, the daughter of the painter Gino Severini in Rome . Nino Franchina took part in the III. Rome Quadrennial. In 1943 he had his first solo exhibition in the Galleria Minima in Rome. In 1947 Franchina became a member of the Fronte Nuovo delle Arti .

In 1948 he took part in the XXIV  Venice Biennale with the other artists from the Fronte Nuovo delle Arti . He also exhibited at the Venice Biennials in 1952, 1958, 1966 and 1972. He was a participant in the 1st Alexandria Biennale in Egypt , the VII  Quadriennale in Rome , the IV São Paulo Biennale in 1957  and the documenta II in Kassel in 1959 .

In 1972 he took part in the IX. Exposition Internationale de Sculpture Contemporaine at the Musée Rodin in Paris . His last work was on the XI. Rome Quadriennial shown, one year before his death in 1987, also in Rome.

literature

  • Franchina, Nino . In: Emmanuel Bénézit : Dictionary of Artists. Volume 5. Gründ, Paris 2006, ISBN 2-7000-3075-3 . P. 986.
  • Giovanni Carandente: Nino Franchina. Officina edizione, Roma 1968.
  • 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 Franchina, Nino
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH June 25, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Palmanova , Udine Province, Italy
DATE OF DEATH 1987
Place of death Rome , Italy