Edoardo Giordano Biography
The painter Edoardo Giordano (1904-1974), known as Buchicco, completed his artistic studies at the Academy of Naples and made his debut in 1928 at the First Permanent Art Exhibition of Naples, where he exhibited a painting with a secessionist flavour. In the following years he participated in numerous editions of the annual exhibitions organized by the Neapolitan Fascist Union and in some Venice Biennials. In 1931 he held a solo show at the Galleria Il mIlione in Milan. In 1933 he stayed in Paris where, struck by Dufy's works, he approached ceramics in the laboratory of the ceramist Artigas. In 1934 and 1936 he was at the Venice Biennale and in 1935 at the Rome Quadrennial and, in Paris, at the Carmin Galleries. In 1937, having returned to Italy, he was called to collaborate with the newly founded Neapolitan ceramic factory "Ceramica di Posillipo", owned of Antonio De Val, where, until 1942, he created the decoration of numerous ceramic panels and plates with a twentieth-century flavour. In 1938 he presented some of his pieces at the Bragaglia Gallery in Rome. In 1939 he designed the decorations for the majolica floor of the swimming pool restaurant of the Triennale d'Oltremare and in 1947 another similar floor, intended for the San Martino Museum in Naples, was created on his design. In the years after the Second World War it became a cultural point of reference for the young Neapolitan artists of the Southern Group and exhibited with them in various exhibitions. In the early 1950s he moved to Milan and approached geometric and informal abstractionism. Returning to Rome in the early 1960s, he took part in the Venice Biennale in 1962 and in the Milan Triennale in 1964. From 1967 to 1970 he taught nude at the Academy of Naples.
