Giangiacomo Spadari Biography
Spadari Giangiacomo (San Marino, 1938 - Milan, 1997) Giangiacomo Spadari's artistic career began in 1961, when he moved from Rome to Milan and it was here that he held his first solo show at the Spotorno Gallery. The artist's artistic language in that period was aimed at Figuration and in particular at Existential Realism (the works of Vaglieri, Guerreschi, Romagnoni, Bacon and Giacometti). Spadari's painting is inspired by events in our reality, underlining a link with 1968. The characteristic pictorial techniques of the artist's painting are the use of solarized photographic images, which transform the real image into a contemporary icon, with symbolic values and scenes taken from films and newspapers, so much so as to make Spadari a fundamental figure in artistic experimentations of that time. The artist's work, together with that of artists such as Paolo Bertella and Fernando De Filippi, seems to continue the previous experience of Existential Realism and then reconnect with the New Figuration. The artist exhibited in Paris, Brussels and participated in the Rome Quadrennial in 1972. In the 1980s he presented his first landscapes, exhibited at the Bergamini Gallery in Milan, defined by the artist as postnuclear or prehistoric and of an absolute nature. In the 1990s he proposed a new cycle of works presented in the exhibition "The Seven Deadly Sins" at the Galleria L'Eroica in Milan, in which the seven deadly sins were transformed into social sins, through the depiction of current events.
