Edgardo Mannucci Biography
Edgardo Mannucci (1904-1986) was born in Fabriano in 1904. Since he was a child he practiced working marble and later dedicated himself to working cement.
As a young man he moved to Rome where, to live, he initially worked as a bricklayer, plasterer and labourer. He then went to live for a few years in the studio of the sculptor Quirino Ruggeri. In the meantime he attended the Industrial Art Museum and through maestro Ruggeri met other exponents of artistic and literary culture.
Other contacts with the Roman artistic world are, in 1927, with Cagli, and the environment of the Galleria della Cometa. Together with Cagli, they constitute the group "Gli Orientalisti". In this period he still works in a traditional and analytical way, but here his first reaction was born, and, with this, the need to search for new forms.
He then took part in group exhibitions such as the Roman Quadrennial and during the 1930s he collaborated on exhibition designs, coming into contact with members of the Futurist movement. Of Futurism he shares in particular the interest in the theme of speed.
In 1937 he opened a new studio in via Margutta. Here after the war he hosted for some time Burri, Uncini, Trubbiani, Angeli, Tolve and other young artists, and, briefly, Rauschenberg himself. He faced various vicissitudes during the war and in 1944 he returned to Italy.
He meets Alberto Burri, with whom he immediately becomes friends and begins to work assiduously with materials (metal, tin, gas). In this period he found himself very close to the "Origine" group formed by Ballocco, Burri, Capogrossi, Colla. He died in 1986 in Arcevia.
Some of his works are preserved in the Krller Mller in Otterlo, in the Museum of Modern Art in New York and in the Museum of Modern Art in Dallas.
