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Emilio Vedova (Venice 1919) He was a self-taught artist. In 1942 he joined the Italian anti-fascist movement "Corrente". Read the full biography

Emilio Vedova Biography

Emilio Vedova (Venice 1919) He was a self-taught artist. In 1942 he joined the Italian anti-fascist movement "Corrente". In 1946 he wrote the manifesto "Oltre Guernica" with other artists. In the same year the artists founded "Fronte Nuovo delle Arti", a group of young Italian artists who wanted to completely renew Italian art in a common anti-fascist context. On the one hand it tends towards abstractionism, on the other towards realism. The artist chose abstraction. After a period in which geometric shapes prevailed, Vedova surpassed it between 1950 and 1953, preferring an informal and passionate gestural form. The artist often works in cycles and in the second half of the 1950s he tried to push the limits of painting through various experiments, opening the doors to new media. At the beginning of the 1960s Emilio Verdovar abandoned the square shape of his paintings and the so-called "plural paintings" were born. These are folding frames, made with wooden planks with iron hinges, made with different techniques and completely painted. Vedova stayed in Berlin from 1964 to 1965 as part of the "Artist-in-Residence" program. He participated in Documenta in 1955, 1959 and 1982. In 1960 the artist's work was exhibited in a space dedicated to him at the Venice Biennale. He was awarded the Grand Prix of the Biennale. In 1984 the Correll Museum in Venice exhibited 280 works in a complete retrospective. In 1986, another exhibition was held at the "Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen" (Bavarian State Collection) in Munich. Emilio Vedova is considered one of the greatest exponents of Italian informal painting of the 1950s and 1960s.