Giansisto Gasparini Biography
Gasparini Giansisto. Casteggio (Pavia), 1924. Painter, engraver, mosaicist. He attended the Brera Academy. He exhibited for the first time at the Borgonuovo Gallery, in Milan, in 1946. He presented his first solo exhibition in Milan, at the Bergamini Gallery, in 1953. He took part in the main Italian collective exhibitions of the period, including several editions of the Suzzara Prize; he was invited to the Venice Biennale in 1952 and to the Rome Quadrennial in 1955. From the 1960s onwards, numerous solo exhibitions followed. In 1991 he exhibited at the collective exhibition on existential realism at the Permanente in Milan. He is among the first artists who, after the Liberation, gathered around the Borgonuovo Gallery in Milan. In Voghera he formed friendships with Atanasio Soldati and other young painters: Augusto Garau, Dino Grossi and, above all, Alberto Nobile. In the 1950s his painting - focused on the representation of factories and suburbs, workers' and peasants' struggles - was close to existential realism. In his engravings he develops themes of political and social commitment, in ways that reveal the influence of German Expressionism. In the Seventies he dedicated himself to illustration and decoration (mosaics and stained glass windows for churches). In the 1980s he proposed naturalistic subjects and portraits of artists, but also reflections on violence and the contradictions of our time.
