Giammaria Ciferri Biography
Gianmaria Ciferri (1925 - ) was born in Sondrio in 1925. Having moved to Brescia, he completed his studies in professional secondary schools, where he had been introduced by virtue of his extraordinary ability to draw. His teacher is the architect Villani. He enrolled in the newly created Bresciana Art Academy and attended drawing school for a year. The world of the AAB is not just the school: it is the cultural encounter with the world of the "greats" who paint, Botticini, Ragni, Ghelfi. It is also the season of his maturation: the post-war period permanently opens up the profession to him as an illustrator, (of school books) a prevalent activity until the end of the sixties. At home, however, next to the draftsman's table, there is the easel: and there he elaborates his work as a painter for the first time 'AAB, in 1963: the exhibition was not successful, little audience, only one painting sold. Success came with the second exhibition in 1969. His career as a painter began from here. He met the gallery owner Ghelfi of Verona and booked for 1970 that exhibition in which all the works exhibited are sold. Having abandoned his commitment to illustration with various publishers, the artist practically made himself known in various parts of Italy, in Switzerland, France and Germany, achieving an incredible amount to this day. sequence of personal exhibitions. His works enter important public and private collections in Italy and Europe, thanks to evocative initiatives such as the traveling exhibition organized in 1989 by the Italian Cultural Institute in Germany which went from Munich to Cologne, Frankfurt, Nuremberg and Dusseldorf. In 1995 the prestigious assignment came from Carnival Cruise Lines of Miami, the largest shipping company in the world in the cruise sector: to furnish the twenty "penthouse suites" of the Destiny, the flagship of American pleasure ships, with twenty large-format paintings .
