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Migneco Giuseppe | ||||
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Giuseppe Migneco was born in 1908 and lives in Milan. Formation
He grew up in Ponteschiavo, enjoying the freedom of a happy childhood
between the sea and the countryside. This period remains in his mind as
the memory of a lost paradise and returns afterwards as a leitmotif in
many of his pictures. He returned to Messina to study at the Maurolico grammar school where he
obtained his school leaving certificate. Studies
and work
In 1931 he moved to Milan to follow University courses in medicine ,
which he soon abandoned in the attempt to realise his artistic aspirations
that had induced him to leave Sicily. He managed to make ends meet
illustrating some copies of the children’s comic “Corriere dei Piccoli”,
preparing adverts for a tie manufacturer, working as a retoucher for the
magazines of the publishers Rizzoli and Pizzi & Pizzi. In the meantime
he painted autobiographical – existential pictures in a style that is
vaguely similar to that of Scipione or Sironi, being aware, however, of
the inadequacy of the results compared to the intent. Return
to painting
His meeting in 1934 with Beniamino Joppolo, an ex-schoolmate, and
through him, his friendship with Birolli, De Grada and Sassu was the
beginning of his discovery of that pictorial world toward which,
vaguely, but irresistibly he had always been attracted.
With the encouragement of these friends, frequenting their studios
, and the sense of freedom that was communicated to him through their
works, he started to paint again with a new spirit and more confidence. In
1937 he was among the founders of the “Corrente” (Current) movement. First
personal exhibitions
In 1940 he inaugurated his first personal exhibition in Genoa, at the
Galleria Genova di Cairola. In 1941, a personal exhibition at the
“Corrente” Showroom. In 1942 at the Spiga Gallery. The same year he
took part at the Bergamo award with his picture “Cacciatori di lucertole”
(Lizard catchers). Immediately afterwards he was called up for military
service and had to interrupt his artistic activities until 1945 when he
exhibited at Renzo Bertoni’s “Galleria
a San Radegonda” in Milan.
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the following years he exhibited in the following galleries: 1947 : “Galleria del Cavallino”, Venice; 1948-49 : “Galleria del Naviglio”, Milan; 1952-53 : “Galleria La Colonna”, Milan; 1956: “The Leicester Galleries”, London; 1957: “Galerie le Pic Rosenberg”, Paris; 1958: Room XXIX , Venice Biennial Exhibition; 1960: “Galleria Nuova Pesa”, Rome; 1962: “Galleria Michaud”, Florence; 1964-65: “Galleria Goethe”, Bolzano; 1966: “Galleria Macchi”, Pisa; 1970: “Galleria La Robinia”, Palermo; 1971: “Galleria
Gissi”, Turin; 1972: “Galleria Medea”, Milan; 1974: “Galleria Pace”, Milan; 1977: “Galleria Toninelli”, Rome; 1978: “ Levy Gallery”, Hamburg; 1979: “Galleria
l’Indiano”, Florence; 1982: “Galleria 32”, Milan; 1983: “Galleria Borgo Arte”, Borgomanero; | ||
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