Sexto Canegallo Biography
Sexto Canegallo was born on 2 February 1892 in Sestri Ponente. He attended the Linguistic Academy in Genoa, where he was a student of Lazzaro Luxardo, Tullio Salvatore Quinzio, Lorenzo Massa and Alfredo Luxoro. His artistic style was initially influenced by the pointillist poetics of Plinio Nomellini, together with other artists such as Angelo Morbelli, Gaetano Previati and Rubaldo Merello. Canegallo thus began to create pointillist paintings, characterized by a strong symbolic accent and the use of divided colour. In 1914, in Milan, he met the painter Romolo Romani, who fascinated him with his symbolist compositions of European secessionist ancestry. From this meeting, Canegallo began to organize his works into cycles, developing a symbolic-scientific painting, tending to deepen the study of the radiations of light.
Among his main exhibitions, we can mention that of Rome in 1920, with 50 works exhibited in the foyer of the Argentina theatre, and that of Genoa, which was held the same year at the Carlo Felice theatre. Canegallo also exhibited in Paris, at the Galerie La Boetie, in 1925.
He died in Sestri Ponente in 1966.
