Giancarlo Cerri Biography
Giancarlo Cerri was born in Milan in 1938 and began painting very young, in the mid-1950s. He attended the Cesare Correnti Institute in Milan, where he obtained a diploma as a poster designer in the same years. Between 1956 and 1976, Cerri dedicated himself simultaneously to painting and advertising graphics. Subsequently, since 1977, he dedicated himself exclusively to painting and collaborated with newspapers and magazines in the sector as an art critic.
From 1988 to 1995, he was artistic director of the De Gasperi Cultural Center in Milan. In June 1991, with the patronage of the Lombardy Region, he conceived and curated the collective exhibition and catalog "Artisti di Via Manzoni", inaugurated on the occasion of the reopening - after the renovation - of the historic Milanese palace Bagatti Valsecchi.
Unfortunately, due to a serious eye disease, Cerri has no longer painted for several years and his last works date back to the spring of 2005. In February 2012 his book entitled "Painted painting - my four seasons" was published , where he explains the four phases of his artistic career which were conceived and created as follows: 1955-1975, typically Italian figuration with references to twentieth-century painting in which the theme of landscape prevails; 1976-1990, informal naturalistic material period, executed on large canvases with the dominant theme being "Great Forests"; 1991-2001, journey into essential abstractionism, works painted with the sole use of two-three colours, namely the "Sequences" and "Grandi sequences".
Cerri's works are present in numerous contemporary art museums and public collections, including the Museo della Permanente in Milan and the Museion in Bolzano. He is also an honorary member artist of the Società per le Belle e Esposizione Permanente of Milan.
