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Fundamental for his apprenticeship was 1947 when Scanavino went to Paris for the first time and had the opportunity to meet poets and artists such as Edouard Jaguer, Wols, Camille Bryen. In 1950 he exhibited at the XXV Venice Biennale. Read the full biography

Emilio Scanavino Biography

Fundamental for his apprenticeship was 1947 when Scanavino went to Paris for the first time and had the opportunity to meet poets and artists such as Edouard Jaguer, Wols, Camille Bryen. In 1950 he exhibited at the XXV Venice Biennale. In 1951, on the occasion of a personal exhibition at the Apollinaire Gallery, he lived for some time in London, where he met and frequented Philip Martin, Eduardo Paolozzi, Graham Sutherland, Francis Bacon. The following year, 1952, he also worked in the Ceramiche Mazzotti factory in Albissola Marina, where he met numerous artists and became friends with some of them, including Lucio Fontana, Asger Jorn, Guillame Corneille, Sebastian Matta, Wifredo Lam, Giuseppe Capogrossi, Enrico Baj. In 1958 he signed a contract with the Galleria del Naviglio. He moved with his family to Milan. Successes and collaborations followed one another in Italy and abroad. Many critics dealt with his work including Enrico Crispolti, Guido Ballo, Giampiero Giani, Edouard Jaguer Gillo Dorfles, Roberto Sanesi, Franco Russoli and Alain Jouffroy.