Orazi Biography
ORAZI (1906 - 1979) was a French painter, belonging to the École Francaise, member of the Ecole de Paris (or nouvelle École de Paris). In Paris, he set up his atelier on Boulevard du Montparnasse since 1934. After the Second World War, in 1946-1947, he moved to another atelier - also in the Montparnasse district - which remained the same until his death. His production followed an evolution that pushed his research from figurative to abstraction, where his work was often characterized by effects of materials in relief - Peinture en Relief - more or less protruding from the canvas and protruding from the frame of the paintings . He returns to figurative painting, with a series of landscapes, in his last, short, artistic phase. ORAZI is the name he adopts during his career. He was a historic member of the Salon de Mai in Paris, where his works were continuously exhibited from 1947 to 1979. From 1934 until the year of his death, in 1979, he participated in a long series of exhibitions, many of which were personal, especially in Paris but also in other locations in France, as well as in Europe, Mexico and Japan. There were also some post-mortem personal exhibitions, from 1980 to 2006. Subsequently, the American photographer and artist Peter H. Beard reproduced four of his works from the Peinture en Relief phase in the 2009 Pirelli Calendar.
