Angelo Canevari Biography
Angelo Canevari (1930 - 2014) was a Roman artist born in 1930 and passed away in 2014. He trained with Colla, Burri and Cagli as teachers. In the 1960s his sculptural production focused on the recovery of an imaginary past made up of saints, warriors and biblical scenes. He later moved on to creating robotic figures. In the 1970s he returned to his fascination with antiquity with the cycle of the Canopies and the Herms. His father Angelo was a well-known futurist painter who created the wall mosaics for the indoor swimming pool, for the House of Arms and for the Piazzale dell'Impero at the Foro Italico (at the time called Foro Mussolini), as well as those for the after-work theater of the tobacco factory (now Cinema Nuovo Sacher)] his grandfather Enrico was a painter, while his uncle Silvio created some of the statues of the Foro Italico; Bido owes his training more than to the school to his frequenting of artists such as Corrado Cagli, Mirko, Ettore Colla, Edgardo Mannucci and Alberto Burri. He is the father of Paolo Canevari, a famous contemporary artist. In 1965 he was invited to the Paris Youth Biennial and in 1967 he was awarded the overall First Prize for sculpture at the VII Antoniano Biennial of Sacred Art in Bologna. He created the bronze chest of the Holy Door of St. Peter and many Vatican coins. The three bronze doors for the Romanesque cathedral of Belluno, the door for the Romanesque church of Trani, the doors for the co-cathedral of S. Andrea in Subiaco, the door for the eighteenth-century church of Sant'Agostino in Giovinazzo, the commemorative monument for the Fréjus motorway tunnel, and the statue of San Benedetto in Subiaco are among the monumental works to which he has dedicated himself almost exclusively since the 1980s. In December 1997 he represented Italy in the Sculpture section of the Italian Pavilion at the International Art Biennial of Alexandria, Egypt.
