Giuseppe Cavallini Biography
Giuseppe Cavallini (1916 – 2000) was a painter, born in Livorno in 1916. He remained "clinging" to his Livorno all his life: he preferred "its rocks" to the prospects offered to him of certain successes in a foreign land. Self-taught, he has been invited to national and international exhibitions. One of the most awarded painters in Italy, 1st prize Città Marina di Ravenna (1963), 1st prize Golfo del Sole in Follonica (1963), 1st prize Città di Casale Monferrato (1965) and many others, he received widespread acclaim by well-known critics and artists, such as: Carlo Carrà, De Grada, De Micheli, Lepore, Trombadori, Treccani, Marussing, Guttuso, Mario Borgiotti, Giovanni March, etc... He participated, always upon invitation, in the Galerie International des Musée de Beaux Arts and at the Galérie Temple des Art in Vienne (Lyon). In 1970 he was invited by the Galérie Internationale in New York «in order to make contemporary Italian art better known and promoted in the United States, and in New York in particular». In 1975 he was awarded the title of «Meritorious Academician» by the G.Marconi Universal Academy of Rome. He also exhibited at the XV.ème Salon International de peinture, Ville de Montelimar, where in the two events (1978-1980) he obtained praise from authoritative critics (Valtart, René Mareschal, etc...). The numerous personal exhibitions that Beppe held in the main cities of his native Tuscany and in other important Italian cities, from Termini Imerese (Sicily) to Milan, Vicenza, Verona, etc. have also received strong appreciation from the public and critics. He was part of juries and the volume Arte Italiana nel Mondo reserved two pages for him with photos and comments by Ardelio Befani. In the mid-eighties he definitively retired to his studio in Via dell'Indipendenza; the search for the new, for pictorial expressions that would always better translate his artistic sensitivity, became almost an obsession for him. He died in 2000.
