Mino Delle Site Biography
Mino Delle Site was an Italian painter and sculptor born in Lecce in 1914. After finishing high school, in 1930 he moved to Rome, where he attended the Academy of Fine Arts. In 1931, he participated in the “First Aeropainting Exhibition – Futurist homage to the transvolators" in Rome, where he met some of the main exponents of Futurism, including Marinetti, Balla, Fillia Prampolini and Dottori. Subsequently, he became an active member of the Futurist movement and participated in numerous exhibitions in Italy and Europe.
In the 1930s he participated (1935) with the futurists in the II Roman Quadrennial (1935), the XX International Biennale of Venice (1936) and other initiatives of the futurist movement in Italy and Europe; at the 2nd Mostra della Plastica Murale (1936) Rome, at the XXI Venice Biennale (1938) again at the III Roman Quadrennial (1939).
In the 1950s he presented his first anthology at the Galleria delle Carrozze in Rome (1956) and participated in the VI, VII and VIII Roman Quadrennial.
In 1965 he exhibited in the USA, at the Rizzoli Gallery in New York with a personal anthology exhibition, works from 1932 to 1965. In the following decades, Delle Site continued to participate in exhibitions dedicated to Futurism. In 1984, he held a futurist retrospective at the Galleria Fonte d'Abisso in Modena, followed by a similar exhibition the following year at the Galleria Narciso in Turin. In 1989, a year before his death, Lecce dedicated an anthological exhibition to him with some of his most recent works.
Mino Delle Site was one of the main exponents of Futurist Aeropainting and, after the Second World War, he was also influenced by Cubism and Abstractionism. The artist died in 1996.
