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Giulio D'Anna was born in 1908 in Villarosa in the province of Enna.
He was a protagonist of the Sicilian artistic avant-garde and above all of the Italian futurist current.
After his first youthful works in some bookshops, in Messina he met Fortunato Depero who directed him towards the futurist pictorial technique, especially in the aero-pictorial field.
It was enthusiastically praised by Marinetti, who arrived in Messina "futurist city" in 1931 for a conference at the Fascist Cultural Centre.
Giulio D'Anna remained the only Sicilian artist to represent Futurism in the main collective exhibitions of Aeropainting and Sacred Futurist Art in the years 1931-36 (Quadriennale di Roma, 1935: Cosmic Metamorphosis; Biennale di Venezia, 1934-1935: Amanti dello space; Venice Biennale 1936: Erotic Spheres).
In 1933, in Messina, he was the leader of one of the new independent futurist groups. In the fifties, sixties and early seventies, he participated in numerous exhibitions in Messina and Rome as a multi-material artist and faithful experimenter of futurist perspectives.
Subsequently, his presence at artistic events became less frequent, and he preferred to take care of the bookshop and publishing house founded by his brother Giacomo, until his death in 1978. Read the full biography

Giulio D'Anna was born in 1908 in Villarosa in the province of Enna.
He was a protagonist of the Sicilian artistic avant-garde and above all of the Italian futurist current.
After his first youthful works in some bookshops, in Messina he met Fortunato Depero who directed him towards the futurist pictorial technique, especially in the aero-pictorial field.
It was enthusiastically praised by Marinetti, who arrived in Messina "futurist city" in 1931 for a conference at the Fascist Cultural Centre.
Giulio D'Anna remained the only Sicilian artist to represent Futurism in the main collective exhibitions of Aeropainting and Sacred Futurist Art in the years 1931-36 (Quadriennale di Roma, 1935: Cosmic Metamorphosis; Biennale di Venezia, 1934-1935: Amanti dello space; Venice Biennale 1936: Erotic Spheres).
In 1933, in Messina, he was the leader of one of the new independent futurist groups. In the fifties, sixties and early seventies, he participated in numerous exhibitions in Messina and Rome as a multi-material artist and faithful experimenter of futurist perspectives.
Subsequently, his presence at artistic events became less frequent, and he preferred to take care of the bookshop and publishing house founded by his brother Giacomo, until his death in 1978.