Giancarlo Marchese Biography
Giancarlo Marchese (1931 – 2013) was born in Parma in 1931 and died in Milan in 2013. Having moved to Milan immediately after the war, he attended the art high school then annexed to the Brera Academy, where he was a pupil of Luciano Minguzzi, and therefore, in Accademia, Marino Marini's sculpture classroom. He taught sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence in 1975 and from 1976 to 2000 held the chair of sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Milan. In 2000 he taught a course in “Sculptural Design” at Seoul National University and UOU University in Ulsan, South Korea. He is the first artist to introduce wavy, bent, modeled glass into the world of sculpture. as if it were clay. His works are "memory boxes", surfaces on which memories of loved things are imprinted, like casts, such as a building, a Renaissance portal, Arab monuments. The magic of these glasses, which in some declinations seem like sheets of ancient wisdom codes, fortunately found and framed in iron, also consists in their ability to be both concrete and phantasmatic, like a luminous shadow, a double, an Egyptian kha. Like a momentary apparition of the soul.
