Tullio Carli Biography
Tullio Crali (Igalo, 6 December 1910 – Milan, 5 August 2000) was an Italian painter connected to the Futurist movement. Self-taught, he joined futurism late, not before 1929. He is known for his realistic works, although in his long career he also expressed other styles. From a Zadar family, he was born in a small town in the Boka Kotor area in present-day Montenegro, where his father worked temporarily. He lived in Zadar until 1922, when he moved to Gorizia with his family. He discovered futurism at fifteen, while he was a student at the city's technical institute, and was influenced in his early works by Giacomo Balla and Enrico Prampolini. In 1928 he flew for the first time, and the following year - the one in which Futurist aeropainting was born - he got in touch with Filippo Tommaso Marinetti and officially entered the Futurist movement. After his first exhibitions in Italy, Marinetti invited him to exhibit in Paris, in the first exhibition of Italian aeropainters: it was 1932. He then became a personal friend of Marinetti. After the Second World War he remained faithful to futurist poetics. He first practiced in Turin, then moved to Paris (1950 - 1958, in those years he designed the Sassintesi), then again to Cairo (1962 - 1966, he taught at the Italian art school). From 1958 to 1961, he taught Drawing and History of Art at the "Vittorio Veneto" Scientific High School in Milan, in the last 3 years of sections G and H. From 1966 until his death he lived in Milan. There he began to collect and catalog the papers and documents that concerned him; in 1999 he donated his collection to the 20th century archive of the Mart in Rovereto. together with 41 works, which - in the year of his death - will be followed by another 48. Tullio Crali, by his express wish, is buried in the cemetery of Macerata where he rests together with his son Massimo (died on 3 February 2008), the city where his wife Adolfina Savelli and three nieces Marzia, Vibia and Lavinia.
