Antonio Vangelli Biography
Descended from a family of painters, sculptors and architects and son of Emidio Vangelli, Antonio Vangelli was born in Rome in 1917. In the 1930s he became part of the artistic environment of the capital where he made his debut with the publication of some drawings in the literary magazines "Lettere Today" and "Risorgimento". He took part in the first exhibition organized by the "Free Association of Figurative Arts" at the end of the 1930s. In the years after the Second World War his artistic maturation led him to create works inspired by the industrial landscape and in the 1960s he created some decorations on ceramic vases using the casting technique. At the beginning of the Seventies he met the painter Antonio Vacca, an artist with whom he formed a deep friendship, and together they traveled to New York, Los Angeles, Amsterdam and in the Renaissance setting of Villa San Carlo Borromeo, on the outskirts of Milan, they discovered a new creative inspiration . At Villa San Carlo Borromeo, in 1999 he held a large solo exhibition entitled La festa della vita, on which Spirali published an art book of the same name. Antonio Vangelli passed away in Rome in 2004. Posthumous exhibitions were held at the Museum of Villa San Carlo Borromeo, and his works participated in the group exhibitions Il portrait. The artistic and cultural roots of Europe (2005), The school of Rome (2006), Women (2006), Beauty, art, writing. Europe, Russia, China, Japan (2007) and The incarnation of color and the writing of light (2007) and in the large collective Tesori dell'Italia (2007), held at the Chongqing Planning Exhibition Gallery, of Chongqing, China. Antonio Vangelli died in Rome in 2004.
