Tristano Alberti Biography
Tristano Alberti was born in Trieste on 25 June 1915. In his youth the artist attended the "Ornatist Sculptors" section of the school for heads of art at the 'Alessandro Volta' Institute in Trieste, a very prestigious school. Alfonso Canciani finds himself as a teacher, but Tristano does not complete the course of studies and continues at the Teachers' Institute even though he retains his enormous passion for the figurative arts, which are now an intense part of his life. As a self-taught artist, he experiments, through sculpture, with every type of expressiveness that raw and molded material can create. Towards the mid-1930s Tristano took part in the artistic exhibitions organized in the city, one of the many being the X Interprovincial Art Festival of the Fascist Union at the Muzio de Tommasini public garden. Also in this period the artist approaches portraiture, a genre that he will always love and prefer and which leads him to create, in plaster, a series of heads: 'My mother', 'Gigliola'. In the 1950s, however, there was a change in Alberti's portraits: they became simpler and closer to modern art, in the same year he participated in the VI National Art Quadrennial in Rome where he won the prize for sculpture. In 1964 he participated in the Trieste Artists' Exhibit in New York where he exhibited as works a 'Bull' and the 'Woman in the Bora'. It is precisely on this occasion that the 'Bull' was purchased by the House Gallery in New York. The following year, in 1965, Tristano inaugurated a new personal exhibition at the La Bora gallery in Trieste and then exhibited, in Montevideo (Uruguay), at the XVII International Art Exhibition Premio del Fiorino where he participated with the "Woman in the Bora" . In 1969 he participated with some of his sculptures in the "Homage to the Circus" exhibition, created on the occasion of the second centenary of the foundation of the equestrian circus. His last solo exhibition while alive was in 1974 at the Galleria Rettori Tribbio in Trieste. In 1976 he was awarded the Cimento d'oro dell'arte e della culture prize, shortly afterwards Alberti was struck by a sudden illness and died on 1 February 1976.
