GAULI Piero, Head, ceramic, cm 18

Piero Gauli (Milan 1916). He studied engineering and after architecture at the Higher Institute of Architecture in Venice, was designer and theater performer since the beginning by making its entry into the world of art. Has worked over the years, including Milan, Verna in Val d'Intelvi, land of origin of the father, but probably the place to which Gauli has remained linked is Umbria.

In 1938 his first official exhibition as a painter at the University Triveneta Exhibition in Milan in 1940 he joined the group of current art magazine. The war led him to the Russian front and to be desporto in a Polish concentration camp, on his return devoted to ceramic art, architecture and interior design of furniture.

In 1947 is the first personal exhibition on the national scene for over seventy years and today throughout Italy its exhibitions have been about 150. Gauli can be declared a complete artist that crosses across the visual arts and applied even though the paintings, the watercolors in particular, is the field which is more linked his name. 

Last exhibitions

• The Mountain Community intelvese Lario and municipalities of San Fedele Intelvi and Verna Ramponio present the exhibition of paintings "Homage to Ersilia" Piero di Gaula, in memory of the wife of the Master. The exhibitions will be held in public areas of the former Church Valdese in San Fedele Intelvi and Museum Piero Gauli a Ramponio Verna. The exhibition will then open from 9 August 2009 until 31 August.
• Milan, Bocconi University, March 2008.