Cadorin Biography
Guido Cadorin (1892 - 1976) was born in Venice in 1892. His family was made up of artists. Guido Cadorin's daughter is Ida Barbarigo who will be a painter and later wife of Zoran Music. The original contribution of Guido Cadorin the painter starts from the artistic culture of Italian Liberty, passing through Central European Secessionism, through the culture of the innovative environment of Cà Pesaro up to Magical Realism and the Twentieth Century Current. Cadorin's language is always constant from his mature years up to the early Seventies. In 1909, a pupil of Cesare Laurenti, he exhibited at Ca' Pesaro and in 1911 at the exhibition dedicated to the fiftieth anniversary of the Unification of Italy with three of his paintings. He took part in the main world artistic events (Milan at the Pesaro Gallery in 1923, Amsterdam and Rotterdam 1924, New York 1925, Brussels 1930). In 1923 he participated in the first edition of the Biennale of Decorative Arts in Monza, exhibiting a series of hand-painted ceramics, some furniture, vases, a chandelier, a mosaic fountain and some glass vases made by the Toso glass factory in Venice. Impressed by his art, in 1924 Gabriele d'Annunzio entrusted him with the decoration of his bedroom, the "Zambra del Misello", in his villa in the Vittoriale. In 1925 he was still present with some ceramics at the Monza Biennale. From 1928 to 1962 he taught decoration and painting at the Venice Academy. In 1934 he participated in the Venice Biennale with a wall dedicated to him and then in 1938 and 1942 with an entire room. Alongside his easel work, he also works as a fresco painter and mosaicist. He died in Venice in 1976.
