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Sergio Gagliolo (1934 - ) was born in Bordighera in 1934. At a very young age, he attended the studio of the painter Enzo Maiolino and later took painting courses at the Academy in Bordighera. Read the full biography

Sergio Gagliolo (1934 - ) was born in Bordighera in 1934. At a very young age, he attended the studio of the painter Enzo Maiolino and later took painting courses at the Academy in Bordighera. In 1953 he attended a short nude course at the Brera Academy in Milan. In the Seventies he was at the Piccolo Teatro in Milan, meeting Giorgio Strehler and Virginio Puecher, but it was in Rome that he created scenography sketches for a student who was attending the directing course at the Silvio D'Amico Academy of Dramatic Art. The subject of the sketches is “At Five in the Evening” by Garcia Lorca. In 1960 he met the Lombard painter Ennio Morlotti and a relationship of long friendship and esteem was born between the two. From 1974 to 1985 he held his studio in Milan. Sergio Gagliolo's work is profoundly marked by the themes of his Ligurian land, from the walls as a historical trace of the stones to the bright or suffused flowers in the silence of the place, and by the poetics of Ligurian writers such as Eugenio Montale and Francesco Biamonti who influenced the soul of the artist. His painting always remains difficult, the result of a repressive, introverted, painful vision. Gagliolo turned his interest to the visible signs of the physical presence of things over the course of a lifetime. Gagliolo incorporates the historical memory of the artistic life still flourishing in the mid-twentieth century in this extreme part of Western Liguria.