Renato Barisani

Renato Barisani (born November 15, 1918 in Naples ; † September 3, 2011 there ) was an Italian sculptor and painter .

Life

Renato Barisani studied sculpture at the Art Institute in Naples ( Istituto d'arte di Napoli ), then from 1938 to 1939 at the Art School of the Villa Reale in Monza ( Istituto Superiore per le Industrie Artistiche di Monza ) with the sculptor Marino Marini and graduated from the 1941 Accademia di belle arti di Napoli .

After initially figural work, he developed through abstraction to concrete art and switched to material images in the 1960s. In addition, she worked in the fields of photography, graphics, collage, mosaics and ceramics.

In 1948 he took part in the fifth edition of the Quadriennale di Roma , which was important for the further development of the art world in Italy , under the title Rassegna Nazionale delle Arti Figurative . A second participation in the IX. Quadrennial took place in 1986.

Initially involved in the loose Neapolitan artist group Gruppo SUD ( south ; also Gruppo del Sud , Gruppo Sud pittura ), which was already directed against Informel and tended more towards concrete art and geometric shapes, he founded together with Renato de Fusco , Guido Tatafiore and Antonio Venditti founded the group of artists Gruppo Napoletano Arte Concreta , which existed from 1950 to 1955 and regionally represented southern Italy within the predominantly northern Italian Movimento per l'arte concreta , which Bruno Munari co-founded in Milan .

Exhibitions

The SUD group exhibited at the Galleria il Blu di Prussia in Naples in 1948 . From this time on, numerous solo and group exhibitions followed for Barisani. Of these, the exhibition Arte Astratta e Concreta in Italia in 1951 in the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna in Rome and in 1955 the Le arti plastiche e civiltà meccanica , 1953 the L'arte nella vita del Mezzogiorno d'Italia. Mostra di arti figurative e di arti applicate dell'Italia meridionale in the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome and national presentation Contemporary Italian Paintings 1963 in Melbourne.

After various group exhibitions in Italy and Sicily, Renato Barisani took part in the 1960 exhibition Modern Drawings in the Padawer Galeries New York, 1961 Nouvelle école européenne in the Galleria Kasper Losanna, Collectiva Internazionale in the Galleria Zodiaque Bruxelles, 1963 Mostra d´Arte Italiana Contemporanea in of the David Jones Art Gallery Sydney, 1964 Galerie Wirth Berlin.

Renato Barisani's first solo exhibitions were in 1957 Galleria dell´Incontro Roma and Galleria Medea Napoli, 1958 Galleria Minerva Napoli and Galleria L´Attico Roma, 1960 Galleria S.Carlo Napoli and Galleria Il Traghetto Venezia, 1961 Galleria S.Carlo Napoli and Galleria Il Centro Ischia, 1962 Galleria Cadario Milkano, 1964 Galleria d´Arte "Il Centro" Napoli (February 1st - 21st, 1964). He took part in the Biennale di Venezia in 1962 and 1972. A retrospective took place in 2000 at the Castel dell'Ovo in Naples.

In the public space there are works by him in the underground station Salvator Rosa of the Metropolitana di Napoli , which he artistically works with Mimmo Rotella , Ernesto Tatafiore , Mimmo Paladino and Gianni Pisani as one of the Stazioni dell'Arte (art stations) on Line 1 designed.

His works can be found in the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna in Rome, in the Museo Revoltella in Trieste, in the Galleria d'Arte Moderna Villa Guinigi in Lucca as well as in private collections in Italy and abroad.

Awards

Prices:

• 1952 Ministero della Publica Istruzione,
• 1961 Mostra d'Arte Contemporanea "Termoli",
• 1962 Mostra "Premio Sicilia" Industria Palermo,
• 1962 "Premio Svizzero di Pittura Astratta 1962" Losanna,
• 1963 V. Mostra Nazionale "Arte Contemporanea San Benedetto del Tronto",
• 1963 Mostra Nazionale di Pittura "Città di Lucca".

Publications and exhibition catalogs

• Renato Barisani Giuseppe Marchiori in the catalog of the Galleria d`Arte "Il Blilico" Naples of the exhibition from February 1st to 21st, 1964
• Renato Barisani: opere 1940–1975. Enrico Crispolti con antologia critica di testi di V. Aguilera Cerni…. Magma edizioni, [without place] 1976. (332 pp., Place of printing: Napoli).
• Renato Barisani: opere 1972–1980. Testi di Carlo Belli, Luigi Paolo Finizio. [No information], 1981. (Place of printing: Napoli. Exhibition catalog: Napoli Galleria Numerosette April, 1981).
• Renato Barisani. Morra, Napoli 1991. 122 pp.
• Barisani: i collages. A cura di Enrico Crispolti. Francesco Cusati arte contemporanea, Portici 1992. 79 pp.
• Barisani: i fotogrammi. Massimo Bignardi. Centro di Cultura Contemporanea Napolic'e, Portici 1998. 79 pp.
• Renato Barisani: l'astrazione organica, pitture e sculture 1985–1999. Assessorato alla Cultura, Centro di Cultura Contemporanea Napolic'e, San Giorgio a Cremano 1999. 63 pp. (Text: Massimo Bignardi. Exhibition catalog: San Giorgio a Cremano 1999, Villa Bruno, October 2 - 30, 1999).
• Renato Barisani: matter ad arte. A cura di Stefania Zuliani. Fabbrica del lunedi, Napoli 2004. 99 p. (Exhibition catalog)
• Renato Barisani: opere recenti. A cura di Julia Draganovic e Olga Scotto di Vettimo. Electa Napoli, Napoli [2008]. 110 p. (Exhibition catalog: PAN Palazzo delle Arti di Napoli , October 4 to November 17, 2008).

literature

• Movimento arte concreta, 1948–1958: Barisani, Biglione, Dorfles, Garau, Munari… Galleria Fonte d'Abisso, Modena 1987. (Exhibition November 21, 1987 - February 13, 1988. Curator: Luciano Caramel).

Web links

• Biography Barisanis (Italian; PDF; 20 kB)
• Renato Barisani on Artnet
• Literature by and about Renato Barisani in the bibliographic database WorldCat

Individual evidence

1. ^ In morte di Renato Barisani , equilibriarte.net, accessed on November 1, 2012
2. ^ Addio a Renato Barisani, segnò l'inizio dell'avanguardia partenopea. In: Corriere del Mezzogiorno of September 3, 2011. Italian, accessed November 1, 2012.
3. ↑ Barisani, Renato. In: Emmanuel Bénézit : Dictionary of Artists. Volume 1. Gründ, Paris 2006, ISBN 2-7000-3070-2 , p. 1152.
4. ↑ Archivio Biblioteca Quadrennial (ArBiQ): Barisani Renato. ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Italian, accessed November 2, 2012. 
5. ^ Christoph Wilhelmi: Artist groups in Eastern and Southeastern Europe since 1900. Hauswedell, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-7762-1101-6 , pp. 301–305 (no. 183), pp. 417–418 (no. 267).
6. ↑ Archivio Biblioteca Quadrennial (ArBiQ): L'arte nella vita del Mezzogiorno d'Italia. ( Memento of the original from April 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Italian, accessed November 2, 2012. 
7. ↑ Archivio Biblioteca Quadrennial (ArBiQ): Contemporary italian paintings. ( Memento of the original from April 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Italian, accessed November 2, 2012. 
8. ↑ Metronapoli, Stazioni dell'Arte: Salvator Rosa ( Memento of the original from June 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Italian / English, accessed November 3, 2012.