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Renato Birolli
The Italian painter Renato Birolli was born in Verona in 1905 into a working class family. He moved to Milan in 1923 and formed an avant-garde group with other artists (Renato Guttuso, Giacomo Manzu and Aligi Sassu). In 1937 he joined the Corrente artistic movement. That same year, Renato...
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Biography of Renato Birolli
The Italian painter Renato Birolli was born in Verona in 1905 into a working class family. He moved to Milan in 1923 and formed an avant-garde group with other artists (Renato Guttuso, Giacomo Manzu and Aligi Sassu). In 1937 he joined the Corrente artistic movement. That same year, Renato Birolli was arrested by the Fascist government and in the following years he abandoned painting to devote himself to Communist propaganda and eventually joined the Resistance during the war. After the war, the artist moved to Paris in 1947 and resumed painting. Under the influence of Henri Matisse and Picasso, his painting style quickly changed, first passing through post-cubism, then moving to a certain form of lyricism mixed with expressionism, to end up with a formula close to the abstract landscapes of the Paris School and in particular Alfred Manessier. At this time he joined the Gruppo degli Otto - which included Afro, Corpora, Moreni, Santomaso, Turcato and Vedova - which enjoyed the patronage of Lioneleo Venturi. His works always evoke nature and are halfway between abstraction and figuration. In his last works, Renato Birolli reached the limits of informal abstraction. Since 1949, he has worked in France, Italy and Belgium, exhibiting frequently in Italy, Germany and the United States. His works are preserved mainly in Italian museums. In 1959, Renato Birolli died suddenly in Milan; he was 53 years old.
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1941 Drawing in China ink, signed and dated in ink by the artist lower left et titled lower center. WithoutCatalogue(s) raisonné(s)
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* « Pittura italiana contemporanea », Giuseppe Mazzariol, Istituto italiano d'arti grafiche, Bergame, 1958* « Renato Birolli », Franco Russoli, catalogue d'exposition, Dusseldorf Kunsthalle, 1959-1960
* « Renato Birolli », Marco Valsecchi, Ed. Galleria del Milione, Milan, 1966
* « Opere scelte di Renato Birolli », catalogue d'exposition, Gloria Cosma, Ed. Il Dialogo Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Milan, 1978
* « Figure e luoghi 1930-1959 », E. Pontiggia et V. Birolli, Musée Ettore Fico, Turin, 2016
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A tribute to Renato Birolli
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Alors qu'il rêvait et se préparait à un retour à Vérone, sa ville natale, le peintre italien Renato Birolli est mort prématurément à Milan le 3 mai 1959. Il avait 53 ans. Il repose (carré EF, n°61) dans le cimetière Monumental de Milan. Sa tombe, dessinée par l'architecte Marco Zanuso, est surmontée d'une sculpture en bronze qui ressemble à une grande queue de baleine, créature symbolisant la matrice, le lieu sacré où la vie commence. En son hommage, ce caméllia.
"Toute rationalité abolie dans la construction plastique, nous avons pensé qu'il était de notre responsabilité d'artistes, par d'autres moyens, de rechercher une nouvelle vision du monde." - Renato Birolli
"Peut-être que chez aucun autre artiste contemporain, la misère, la tragédie, l'horreur de ce moment de l'histoire (la seconde guerre mondiale) ont été transcrites avec une telle immédiateté et qu'aucune langue n'a été portée avec un sens de l'humanité plus violent." - Corrado Maltese
"Les incendies, en particulier, réveillent l'imagination de l'artiste en créant une architecture d'émotions." - Renato Birolli
"Maintenant, la question est ce qui a été, peindre notre âme, notre peinture." - Renato Birolli
"Il me faut me sentir sujet actif devant le spectacle naturel." - Renato Birolli
"Je veux que de moi on se rappelle seulement la peinture que je fais et que je ferai." - Renato Birolli
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