Francesco Arduini Biography
Francesco Arduini (1933 - ) was born in Udine in 1933 and obtained his artistic maturity in Venice in 1951. He subsequently enrolled in the Faculty of Architecture in Florence and Venice. His exhibitions began in 1951 and at the same time he became a teacher of Composition at the Veronese State Art Institute “N. Nani”, in which he taught for twenty years. His artistic and exhibition career began in 1953, in all editions of the Verona Biennale, until 1967. In the same period, he took part in various exhibitions, both national and international: in 1962 he received the Diomira Prize in Milan; in 1964 he received an award at the VIII Premio Mestre and in 1968 he received an award in Lucca at the XV National Biennial. The meeting in 1965 with Ludovico Ragghianti, an important art historian who proposed and illustrated a personal anthology of graphics at the University of Pisa, was fundamental. This work will become important in the largest cities of Liguria and Tuscany. Also in the same year he received an invitation to do graphics in Venice for the XXXIII International Biennale, with his works "gli Stendardi". He has also participated in many group exhibitions, both in Italy and abroad in Genoa, Bolzano, Florence, Montebelluna, San Martino di Lupari, Trento, Termoli, San Giminiano, Salzburg, Trissino, Ferrara.
