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Germano Sartelli (Imola, 1925 – 2014) was an Italian sculptor. After attending a wood carving course held in the 1930s and 1940s by Gioachino Meluzzi, Sartelli passionately dedicated himself to sculpture by opening an atelier in the small village of Codrignano. Read the full biography

Germano Sartelli (Imola, 1925 – 2014) was an Italian sculptor. After attending a wood carving course held in the 1930s and 1940s by Gioachino Meluzzi, Sartelli passionately dedicated himself to sculpture by opening an atelier in the small village of Codrignano. The signature of his works has always been the use of recycled materials ranging from newspaper pages, to metal wires and wood. His first exhibition, in 1958, was organized by Dino Gavina at the Circolo di Cultura in Bologna with a presentation by Maurizio Calvesi. In 1962 he was awarded the prize for sculpture by the Ministry of Education and in 1964 he exhibited at the 32nd Venice Biennale which was followed by numerous other personal and non-personal exhibitions. In the 1950s Sartelli started a project at the Luigi Lolli Provincial Psychiatric Hospital in Imola to teach painting to patients, whose creations were exhibited in an exhibition in Imola in 1954: it was the first time in Italy. The pioneering experience of art therapy was also narrated in a 2006 documentary. In the same year of his death, 2014, the documentary film written and directed by Paolo Fiore Angelini Germano Sartelli was released. The shape of things, conversations in which the artist tells his story. Among others, Maurizio Calvesi, Andrea Emiliani, Claudio Spadoni and Roberto Daolio have dealt with his work. The archive fund is preserved at the San Domenico Museum in Imola.