Gustavo Foppiani Biography
Gustavo Foppiani was born in Udine on 12 July 1925. The second of three children, he moved with his family to Piacenza at the age of five and shortly thereafter lost his father. At the end of the war, having returned to Italy, he attended the Gazzola Art Institute from 1946 to 1949, distinguishing himself for merit. In Milan he attended the Academy of Fine Arts. Once back in Piacenza he adapted to various jobs, copying the great Flemish painters, restoring frescoes and decorating ceramics. At 28 he moved to Rome where, in 1955, he had his first exhibition at the Galleria L'Obelisco. The artist's first successes began with exhibitions in Italy and the United States. Participates in the VII and VIII Quadrennial of Rome. The press and specialized critics pay a lot of attention to him. In 1969 his collaboration with the Galleria L'Obelisco was interrupted and he began that with the Galleria Forni in Bologna, which was destined to last many years and with which he created several personal exhibitions. In 1979, with a personal exhibition which achieved considerable success, he began the collaboration with the Guimiot Gallery in Brussels which will have the exclusivity of Foppiani's exhibitions abroad. In 1984 he showed the first symptoms of an illness that would end his life on 5 August 1986. In the same year, in Bologna, the Forni Gallery remembered him with the exhibition: In memory of Gustavo Foppiani. In 1988 the Municipality of Ferrara curated an exhibition of the works of the last four years at the Palazzo dei Diamanti. His paintings are in the Galleria d'Arte Moderna in Rome, in that of Turin and in the Rembrandt Art Center in Johannesburg.
