Carlo Testi Biography
Carlo Vittorio Testi (1902 – 2005) was an Italian painter, sculptor and graphic designer, exponent of Futurism. After a long period in Paris where, in addition to his pictorial activity, he created cartoons for tapestries for the Beauvais factories, he moved to Rome where he began his activity as an advertising graphic designer, successfully applying the airbrush technique. He was also a graphic consultant for various publishers and for Italian Schools Abroad. This was a particularly intense period of his life: he carried out restorations and frescoes in various churches in Emilia-Romagna, works unfortunately lost during the bombings of the Second World War, during which, having returned to Romagna, he went through vicissitudes of all kinds, enduring hardships and running dangers of all sorts, until, once the hostilities were over, he was able to return to Rome and get his "dear" studio back. He later collaborated in the staging of cultural exhibitions abroad (Beli-alt, Cairo, Alexandria in Egypt, Tunis, Casablanca, etc.) and designed interiors for the Rome and Sydney turboships of the Lauro and Andrea Doria Navigazione fleet. In this last vessel lie at the bottom of the ocean twelve large engraved crystals, depicting the signs of the zodiac. He subsequently carried out restorations and frescoes in the small church of the Furbara airport (Rome), in the Castello del Cavaliere (Rome), in the Castle of Santa Severa (Rome), in the Church of Santa Maria Immacolata of Capalbio (Grosseto), in the Church of Sant' Antonio Abate of Tuscania (Viterbo), in the Palazzo Lauro in Naples. His works of sculpture, oils, tempera and watercolors can be found in museums and public and private collections, in Italy and abroad. In 1977 he moved to Lake Garda, to Bardolino and remained here until his death in 2005.
