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Igino Legnaghi (1936 - ) was born in Verona in 1936. He attended the Nani Art Institute and, at the same time, the Cignaroli Academy of Fine Arts in Verona. Read the full biography

Igino Legnaghi (1936 - ) was born in Verona in 1936. He attended the Nani Art Institute and, at the same time, the Cignaroli Academy of Fine Arts in Verona. In 1966 he participated in the XXXIII Venice Biennale in the Decorative Arts section and in '67 he held his first solo exhibition at the Galleria Ferrari in Verona. Between 1967 and 1969 he stayed in the United States, created a metal wall panel for the New School Art Center in New York and exhibited some works at the Chicago Art Institute. He made his debut around the mid-sixties with a series of sculptures in enamelled iron and stainless steel made up of geometric modules - cubes, lozenges, rods, planes, sheets of metal pleated like ladders - painted yellow, red and black with industrial paints. Between '72 and '73 the works open up to articulate themselves in space with a centrifugal movement made of projections and dislocations. The design and ideational character of these sculptures is regulated by a process of automation of the various executive phases. Starting from 1978 Legnaghi replaced the anodized anticorodal with natural iron, the automated techniques with welding. The iron found at the moment of its demolition, for the purpose of an industrial use cycle, seems to signify the discovery of an origin, it imposes itself with the sense of its own weight and its own history and becomes a place of consciousness. Between 1989 and 2001 Legnaghi held the chair of sculpture at the Brera Academy. Since 1995 he has used materials such as aluminium, copper and brass which he works with the aid of machines already used during the seventies. Igino Legnaghi lives and works in Verona.