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Giorgio Di Venere was born in Mestre in 1927. He initially trained under the guidance of Guido Balsamo Stella and then of Carlo dalla Forza. Read the full biography

Giorgio Di Venere was born in Mestre in 1927. He initially trained under the guidance of Guido Balsamo Stella and then of Carlo dalla Forza. He subsequently completed his studies at the Art Institute of Venice where he taught engraving and woodcut from 1968 to 1983. For many years he was active as a painter and engraver, initially taking part in performances at the Opera Bevilacqua La Masa (1957) and subsequently in various national exhibitions and events. Through the Association of Venetian Engravers, he has exhibited extensively in Italy and abroad. He has also organized several personal exhibitions of painting and graphics.
In his artistic production, Di Venere takes the tonalism approach to its extreme consequences, that is, a pictorial language that builds the composition entirely on color. The entire reality is identified with spots of color that are arranged to model objects. This identification is pushed to the point that the painter creates a sort of expressionist landscape where reality is brutally synthesized. In 1975 he was among the artists who exhibited in Moscow at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni during the exhibition of the Associazione Veneziana Incisori. Between 1988 and 1996 he created a series of personal exhibitions; in 1997 he took part in the "Segno Incisivo" V International Engraving Exhibition in Osimo. Recently, in the autumn of 2003, the Municipality of Palmanova (Ud) organized his personal painting exhibition. In 2004 he participated in the collective exhibition "Masters of Engraving" held at the Istituto Statale d'Arte of Venice. In July of the same year the Municipality of Caorle (Ve) hosted a personal painting exhibition of his in the exhibition hall of the civic center. Furthermore, from December 2004 to January 2005, he participated by invitation in the Third Biennial of Contemporary Engraving in Campobasso.