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3. Berto Lardera
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Notes of biography

Berto Lardera was born in 1911 in La Spezia (Italy). Undoubtedly influenced by the occupation of his father, naval engineering, he began sculpting very early. Berto Lardera went to the drawing independent School from 1926 to 1932. His first exhibition was hold in Milan in 1942 then followed by many others (Italy, France, Germany, Brazil, Belgium...).
He moved to Paris in 1947. He immediately took part in numerous group exhibitions and the main annual Parisian Salons (Salon de Mai, Salon des Réalités Nouvelles). The artist, after a few figurative works, was interested in a non abstract sculpture whose style changed significantly over time.
From 1945 to 1949, he assembled geometrical elements which occurred only in two dimensions, some surfaces were barely curved. The artist wanted to show that space could be filled and animated not only with the materiality of completed forms. Lardera worked in the tradition of Pevsner, Tatlin, Archipenko and Julio Gonzales. Later, Berto Lardera looked for the third dimension. Then he assembled cut metal plates, often simple shapes bored in the center, and he distributed them more freely in space. The emptiness was his first material. The artist worked on the lightness and on the adaptation of his sculptures to the environment. He often cut loopholes in the edges of plates and that became one of the hallmarks of his style. Berto Lardera worked on different materials such as iron, aluminum, copper, stainless steel or Corten steel.
Between 1958 and 1961, Berto Lardéra taught sculpture at the Hochschule für bildende Künste in Hamburg.
Lardera was also engraver. Berto Lardera had the opportunity to make several monumental works; sometimes, his works have been raised near prestigious architecture: like Mies van der Rohe in Krefeld (Germany), Aalvar Alto and Walter Gropius in Berlin, Frank Lloyd Wright in Wisconsin (USA).
Berto Lardera died in Paris in 1989.

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