Giuseppe Guerreschi (

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, 1929 –

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in 1947 while working as a clerk in a Milanese bank. In 1951, he quit his job and attended the Academy’s regular courses. He studied painting with

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and engraving with Benvenuto Disertori, graduating in 1954. In the second half of the 1950s he took part in a group exhibitions of artists associated to the "Existential Realism" movement. Through the American dealer Charles Feingarten, Guerreschi's work was the subject of solo exhibitions in

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(1955, 1956, 1958, 1959),

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(1959) and

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(1960). He also displayed his works at the

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in 1960, 1964 and 1972. In 1986, shortly after Guerreschi’s death, curator and art historian Renato Barilli organised a retrospective of the artist at the Rotonda di Via Besana in

Bibliography

* Laura Casone
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