Luigi Veronesi
Luigi Veronesi ( born May 28, 1908 in Milan, † February 25, 1998 ) was an Italian photographer, painter, stage designer and film director.
Life
Luigi Veronesi began his artistic career in the 1920s by trained as a textile artist. He was introduced by Raffaelle Giolli in a group of Italian intellectuals who were active in the circle of the journal Poligono. At twenty, he is interested in painting, and he attended classes at the Neapolitan painter Carmelo Violante, then teacher at the Accademia Carrara in Bergamo, Italy. In 1932 he traveled to Paris and met Fernand Léger. His first works, which were, figuratively, were presented in the gallery il Milione in Milan. Later Veronesi begins to explore the abstract art. In 1934 he made a joint exhibition with Josef Albers at the gallery Il Milione. In the same year he became a member of the group Abstraction- Création in Paris, he experimented constructivism and took over the Bauhaus method. On 4 March 1935 he participated in the first joint exhibition of abstract art in Italy part in the studio of painter Felice Casorati and Enrico Paolucci in Turin. The participants, who 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 of abstract art in Italy". In 1936 was Veronesi the illustrator of a geometry textbook by Leonardo Sinisgalli, he put in the triennial in Milan and took part in an abstract exhibition in the city of Como, along 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 gallery L'Equipe in Paris.
Veronesi was also active in the theater and later in the cinema, and has produced 1938-1980 nine experimental and abstract films, seven of which were destroyed during the Second World War. In 1938 he took part in the stage show in Rome. In 1942 he designed the stage of the Opera Minnie la candida by Riccardo Malipiero. As a set designer, he worked with Giorgio Strehler, the founder of the Piccolo Teatro of Milan, particularly in the works of Luigi Pirandello, and he designed various stages of 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 1947 exhibition Arte astratta arte concreta at the Royal Palace ( Milan) and joined in 1949 the Movimento Arte Concreta (MAC) in Milan at.
He taught graphic design in Venice from 1963 to 1979 and later color theory at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera ( Milan ).
During the 1980s, the activities of the Veronesi were very diverse. He took part in an exhibition on the abstract art in the 33rd Biennale di Venezia; presented in Bolzano in 1980 and in Pordenone, Italy in the year 1984. In 1983 he was awarded an Antonio Feltrinelli Prize. Veronesi was the co-author of together with Giancarlo Pauletto 1989 authored a book on 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
- Royal Palace ( Milan ) ( Palazzo Reale di Milano )
- Institute Mathildenhoehe, Darmstadt
- Sprengel Museum, Hannover
- Foundation for Constructive and Concrete Art, Zurich
Writings
- With Giancarlo Pauletto: Genesio De Gottardo. Edizioni d' Arte, Pordenone in 1989.