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Metacosa Movement
The Metacosa is an Italian art movement founded in the late 1970s. History The group was formed by Giuseppe Bartolini, Giuseppe Biagi, Gianfranco Ferroni, Bernardino Luino, Sandro Luporini, Lino Mannocci and Giorgio Tonelli. The first exhibition was held in 1979 in Brescia, with the presentation of the critic Roberto Tassi who followed the activity also in the subsequent exhibitions. Other exhibitions were held in Milan, Viareggio, Bergamo and Vicenza. The Metacosa has a figurative matrix of poetic intensity with accurate and calculated pictorial research. During his first exhibition in Brescia in 1979, Roberto Tassi wrote: "''Every painter in this group has its own light, the quality and substance of light being different in each of them, the coincidence of poetics does not involve coincidence of style or poetry The fascination and the truth of the exhibition is precisely in this, in joining a common idea, and almost philosophy, painting, very different artists.''" In 2004 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italian Art
Since ancient times, Greeks, Etruscans and Celts have inhabited the south, centre and north of the Italian peninsula respectively. The very numerous rock drawings in Valcamonica are as old as 8,000 BC, and there are rich remains of Etruscan art from thousands of tombs, as well as rich remains from the Greek colonies at Paestum, Agrigento and elsewhere. Ancient Rome finally emerged as the dominant Italian and European power. The Roman remains in Italy are of extraordinary richness, from the grand Imperial monuments of Rome itself to the survival of exceptionally preserved ordinary buildings in Pompeii and neighbouring sites. Following the fall of the Roman Empire, in the Middle Ages Italy, especially the north, remained an important centre, not only of the Carolingian art and Ottonian art of the Holy Roman Emperors, but for the Byzantine art of Ravenna and other sites. Italy was the main centre of artistic developments throughout the Renaissance (1300-1600), beginning with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giuseppe Bertoloni
Giuseppe Bertoloni (16 September 1804, in Sarzana – 19 December 1874, in Bologna) was an Italian botanist and entomologist. He was professor of botany in the University of Bologna which conserves his collections in the University Museum. Bertoloni worked especially on the flora and fauna of Mozambique. He was a member of La Società Entomologica Italiana. His father Antonio (1775-1869) was a physician and botanist in Bologna. Publications Partial list * * * * * * * * * *Illustrazione dei prodotti naturali del Mozambico. ''Academia delle scienze dell'instituto de Bologna''. Dissertazione 4: 343-363 (1852) * Coleoptera nova Mozambicana. ''Rendiconto delle sezione delle R. Academia delle scienze dell'instituto di Bologna'' 1855: 51-53 (1855) * Illustratio rerum naturalium Mozambici. Coleoptera. Dissertatio 5. Memorie delle Academie delle scienze dell'instituto di Bologna. ''Memorie della sezione delle scienze naturali'' 1855 (1855) He also published extensively in the Bol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giuseppe Biagi (painter)
Giuseppe Biagi (born 3 February 1949) is an Italian painter and member of the Metacosa Movement. Biography Born in Viareggio, Biagi attended the Carrara High School and then studied later at the University of Pisa. In 1981, he joined the ''Narciso Art Group'' founded by critic Giorgio Di Genova. Some of the other artists involved were Michele Cossyro, Giuseppe Rogolino and Luca Maria Patella. Two years later, he joined the Metacosa group with Giuseppe Bartolini, Gianfranco Ferroni, Bernardino Luino, Sandro Luporini, Lino Mannocci and Giorgio Tonelli. The group first exhibited at Villa Paolina in Viareggio in 1983 in an exhibition curated by the critic Roberto Tassi, who kept working with the group in subsequent exhibitions. In 1988, Biagi had a solo show at Studio Steffanoni in Milan curated by Roberto Tassi and Vittorio Sgarbi. Other solo presentations of his work include ''Recent Works'' at the Galleria Forni of Bologna (curated by Flaminio Gualdoni) and at Galleria Il Politt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernardino Luino
Bernardino Luino (born 27 March 1951) is an Italian painter and etcher. He is one of the founders of the group La Metacosa and currently teaches at the Brera Academy, Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milan. Biography Luino was born in Latina, Lazio, Latina, Italy. In 1971 he enrolled in the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome where his teachers included Alberto Ziveri and Franco Gentilini. He then moved to the Accademia in Florence in 1973, where, under Alberto Manfredi, he produced his first engravings, discovering a medium he would continue to work with throughout his career. His earliest mature works were exhibited in Florence in 1975, in the artist's first solo show. In 1976, Bernardino Luino moved to Milan, where he met :it:Gianfranco Ferroni, Gianfranco Ferroni. In 1979, Bernardino Luino, together with Giuseppe Bartolini, Gianfranco Ferroni, Sandro Luporini, Lino Mannocci and Giorgio Tonelli, founded the group La Metacosa. The group exhibited together from 1979 to 1983. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lino Mannocci
Lino Mannocci (1945 – March 2021) was an Italian painter, printmaker and writer. Life He was born in Viareggio, Italy, and moved to London in 1968. Between 1971 and 1976 he studied at Camberwell College of Arts and as a postgraduate at the Slade School of Fine Art in London. From 1976, Mannocci has returned annually to a little Italian hamlet in the hills between Lucca and Viareggio. He died in London, March 2021. Career In the early 1980s Mannocci was a co-founder of the movement La Metacosa and was closely involved in all the group's exhibitions and activities. His first Museum exhibition was in 1984 at the 'Hack-Museum' in Ludwigshafen, Germany. During the 1990s he exhibited his work in San Francisco, New York, London, Milan, Florence and Bergamo. In 2004 his recent paintings were included in the exhibition curated by Philippe Daverio at the Spazio Oberdan in Milan called ''Fenomenologia della Metacosa – 7 artisti nel 1979 a Milano e 25 anni dopo'', and in 2005 he had ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brescia
Brescia (, locally ; lmo, link=no, label= Lombard, Brèsa ; lat, Brixia; vec, Bressa) is a city and ''comune'' in the region of Lombardy, Northern Italy. It is situated at the foot of the Alps, a few kilometers from the lakes Garda and Iseo. With a population of more than 200,000, it is the second largest city in the administrative region and the fourth largest in northwest Italy. The urban area of Brescia extends beyond the administrative city limits and has a population of 672,822, while over 1.5 million people live in its metropolitan area. The city is the administrative capital of the Province of Brescia, one of the largest in Italy, with over 1,200,000 inhabitants. Founded over 3,200 years ago, Brescia (in antiquity Brixia) has been an important regional centre since pre-Roman times. Its old town contains the best-preserved Roman public buildings in northern Italy and numerous monuments, among these the medieval castle, the Old and New cathedral, the Renaiss ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milan
Milan ( , , Lombard language, Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the List of cities in Italy, second-most populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of about 1.4 million, while its Metropolitan City of Milan, metropolitan city has 3.26 million inhabitants. Its continuously built-up List of urban areas in the European Union, urban area (whose outer suburbs extend well beyond the boundaries of the administrative Metropolitan cities of Italy, metropolitan city and even stretch into the nearby country of Switzerland) is the fourth largest in the EU with 5.27 million inhabitants. According to national sources, the population within the wider Milan metropolitan area (also known as Greater Milan), is estimated between 8.2 million and 12.5 million making it by far the List of metropolitan areas of Italy, largest metropolitan area in Italy and List of metropolitan areas in Europe, one of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
