Aldo Andreolo Biography
Aldo Andreolo (1926 - ) Aldo Andreolo was born in Venice in 1926 and was a student of Guseppe Cesetti at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice, where he graduated in 1949. In the same year he won the Angiola Prize in the Youth Competition and was invited to the Exhibition of Contemporary Italian Painting at the Correr Museum in Venice, where his works appear alongside those of Boccioni, Carrà, De Chirico, Modigliani. Morandi, Sironi and other protagonists of 20th century Italian painting. During his career he had an intense exhibition activity which made his works known in Italy but also abroad, in cities such as London, New York, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Paris, Geneva, Basel, Munich, Mannheim, Lübeck , The Hague, Brussels, Vienna. His artistic language initially, in the 1950s, consisted of a highly material expressionist-gestural painting. Subsequently, the cycles of abandoned cars, newsstands and beaches were born, in which the women protagonists of his works appear, immersed in long meditations or awaiting mysterious events, immersed in a climate full of metaphysical suggestions. His works appear in important private and public collections, including the Cà Pesaro Museum in Venice, the Civic Museums of Belluno and Padua, the Giulianova Museum of Splendore, the collections of the Veneto Region, of the Cassa di Risparmio Foundation, of Venice, and of the Venice Chamber of Commerce. There have been two anthological exhibitions dedicated to him: in 2004 the Cà Pesaro Museum in Venice with the mystery of the image; Metamorfosi, was held in 2009 in the Monumental Halls of the Marciana Library in Venice.
