Ugo Cara' Biography
Ugo Carà, sculptor and engraver, was born in Muggia in 1908. He has an artistic career spanning 70 years, having begun to exhibit, while still a university student, at the 16th Venice Art Biennale in 1928 as one of the most promising young people. His creative activity knows no stopping: he creates jewellery, medals and commemorative plaques and in his youth he boasts a notable pictorial production even if his true greatness lies in the bronzes. If painting was an almost exclusively youthful interlude, the passion for sculpture accompanied him throughout his life, during which he used the most diverse materials: marble, stone, wood, wax, plaster, bronze. There are many components that intersect at the basis of his sculptures: Mediterranean classicism and impressionist style, plastic balance and daring invention. However, all stylistic and inspirational formats are traced back to a single matrix that the sculptor develops according to his own personal expressive needs, providing results of measured and essential beauty. The sculptures are inspired by the leitmotif of the female figure, by dance, by theatre, by the mythological, by the divine, by nature, and are reflected, in a cultured and refined game, also in the thirty graphics, with an incisive line and lively counterpoints chromatic, in which the inexhaustible, dreamy, rational imagination of the master from Muggesa manifests itself. His is an art that does not fear time, that is not afraid to materialize in any space, be it a square in the center of the city or a secluded niche of a country house or the pedestal of a museum. Among his best-known works are the statue dedicated to Santa Barbara, three meters high, placed on the facade of the Church of Arsia, and the Swimmer, made of bronze, placed along the Barcola Riviera in Trieste. He participated in the Milan Triennale, the Venice Biennale, the Paris and Brussels Expos and at just 29 years old he was present with a sculpture at the Paris International Exhibition.
