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Tancredi Parmeggiani (Feltre, 1927 - Rome, 1964) Tancredi Parmeggiani was an Italian artist, born in Feltre in 1927. He attended the artistic high school of Venice. Read the full biography

Parmeggiani Tancredi Biography

Tancredi Parmeggiani (Feltre, 1927 - Rome, 1964) Tancredi Parmeggiani was an Italian artist, born in Feltre in 1927. He attended the artistic high school of Venice. Crucial for the artist's training were: the meeting with the artist Emilio Vedova and the knowledge of Kandinsky's volume “On the spiritual in art”. It is in this period that he met Romano Conversano and created paintings and drawings of portraits, nudes and baroque architecture. In 1946 he enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice. In 1947 he went to Paris and came into contact with the European avant-garde of the first half of the century. In 1949 he had his first solo show at the Sandri Gallery in Venice in which his pictorial tendencies can already be recognised, centered on the theme of space, color and sign. Tancredi soon demonstrated his ideological closeness to the pictorial technique of action painting: the canvas was no longer placed on an easel, but on the ground, becoming a real field of action on which to operate a total identification between art and life. In 1952 Tancredi became part of the space movement. With his new stay in Paris in the 1950s, the artist had the opportunity to meet Dubuffet, Asger Jorn, Karel Appel and during his stay in Oslo he was fascinated by Munch's work: all encounters that determined a progressive return to the human figure in Tancredi. In the following years he exhibited at the Saidenberg Gallery in New York, at the Hannover Gallery in London and at the Selecta gallery in Rome. In 1959 he exhibited his works at the Galleria dell'Ariete and in the same year he returned to Paris. He subsequently returned to Milan and traveled to Norway. In 1962 he exhibited at the Venetian Canale Gallery and at the Levi Gallery in Milan and then moved permanently to the city of Rome.