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Giuseppe Zigaina ( 2 April 1924 – 16 April 2015) was an Italian neorealist painter and an author.
Born in
Life and career
Born in Cervignano del Friuli
Cervignano del Friuli (, locally ; ) is a (municipality) in the Regional decentralization entity of Udine, in Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy. It is the most important town of Bassa Friulana. It lies at about from the Laguna di Grado and at about ...
, Udine
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, as a child Zigaina showed an early propensity for drawing. He studied at the College of Tolmin
Tolmin (; ,trilingual name ''Tolmein, Tolmino, Tolmin'' inGemeindelexikon, der im Reichsrate Vertretenen Königreiche und Länder. Bearbeit auf Grund der Ergebnisse der Volkszählung vom 31. Dezember 1900. Herausgegeben von der K.K. Statistische ...
o, and at 19 he held his first exhibition. In 1946 he met Pier Paolo Pasolini
Pier Paolo Pasolini (; 5 March 1922 – 2 November 1975) was an Italian poet, film director, writer, actor and playwright. He is considered one of the defining public intellectuals in 20th-century Italian history, influential both as an artist ...
, with whom he established a solid artistic collaboration which included the illustration of some books and the involvement in some films as an actor and as a writer. After the death of Pasolini Zigaina wrote several books about his art.
After winning the Fontanesi Prize at the Venice Biennale
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in 1950, Zigaina's works were gradually influenced by the German New Objectivity
The New Objectivity (in ) was a movement in German art that arose during the 1920s as a reaction against German Expressionism, expressionism. The term was coined by Gustav Friedrich Hartlaub, the director of the ''Kunsthalle Mannheim, Kunsthalle' ...
. Starting from 1965 he eventually adopted the technique of engraving
Engraving is the practice of incising a design on a hard, usually flat surface by cutting grooves into it with a Burin (engraving), burin. The result may be a decorated object in itself, as when silver, gold, steel, or Glass engraving, glass ar ...
, which became gradually distinctive of his artistic production. In 1984 Zigaina moved to San Francisco
San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, Financial District, San Francisco, financial, and Culture of San Francisco, cultural center of Northern California. With a population of 827,526 residents as of ...
to teach at the Art Institute.
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