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 visited in the years 1920-1926 several art schools in Venice. In 1934, he completed his military service in Sicily. He moved to Milan in 1939 and in 1943 to Rome. Turcato was active in the Resistance. In 1945 was Turcato co-founder of the artist group " Art Club ", in 1946 the " Fronte Nuovo delle Arti" and in 1947 the "Format 1".

After the split of the " Fronte Nuovo delle Arti" he founded in 1952 the "Gruppo degli Otto" with the artists Afro Basaldella, Ennio Morlotti, Renato Birolli, Emilio Vedova, Giuseppe Santomas, Antonio Corpora and Mattia Moreni. 1950 undertook Turcato a study trip to Paris., 1958 he participated in the Venice Biennale in 1959 and the documenta II in Kassel. in 1973 he exhibited at the Biennale of São Paulo.

Turcato created images, image objects and polychrome sculptures and also designed several sets for operas, even for a self-composed opera " Turcato / moduli in viola / Ommaggio a Kandinsky ".

Turcatos early painting moves in the form of expression between abstraction and representation. In the 50s Turcato developed his own style with a " linear calligraphic " style of painting in the language of the " Surrealist automatism ".

Literature and sources

• Cornelia Stabenow (ed.): Giulio Turcato. National Gallery of Modern Art, Munich, 1985 ( Catalogue of the exhibition of the same from 25 January to 10 March 1985).