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CELADA DA VIRGILIO Ugo, Still life with peperon, oil on wood, cm 38x33. Authenticated from the archive
Signed lower left. Authenticated by the Committee of the archive of the author.
- Ugo Celada da Virgilio (Virgilio Cerese (MN) 1895- Varese 1995) He
enrolled at the age of eleven years at the School of Arts and Crafts
Luzzara (Reggio Emilia) and then move on to the Royal Scola Applied Art
of Mantua. Thanks to his gifts as an artist gets a scholarship by the
Institute of Mantua Franchetti allowing him to attend the Accademia di
Brera in Milan taking part in courses Caesar Heel. In 1914, with the
outbreak of war he abandoned his studies to enlist. On
returning from the war will leave for Paris to complete his studies,
but in the French capital in 1926 will come only after a stop in Genoa. In 1920 participates in the XII International Art Exhibition of
Venice where he will also be present in 1924, but only in the edition
of 1926 that his work is required to criticism, thanks to the positive
assessment by the French critic Emile Bernard who pointed out that as
Ugo Celada only among the Italians involved. After returning from
living in Paris, you will find numerous exhibitions in major galleries
in northern Italy, including the Quadrennial in Turin in 1928 and that
same year the First Exhibition of the Lombard Permanente in Milan. In
1929 he married Teresa Bernier who will give him a daughter, Maria
Grazia. In 1930 he exhibited at the gallery Samadei along with many
representatives of the movement "Novecento". In July 1931, however, is
among the signatories of an article published in the journal "The
fascist regime" where claims, along with Bresciani Lomin, Nodari
Pesenti, Moretti Foggia and Andreani, unequal treatment against the
group of "Novecento" . Celada, after personally in 1929 and 1932, in
the Galleries Bardi and Sciesa, 1940, the Galleria Salvetti, undergoes
a general isolation that is accentuated in the postwar period.
Convinced that the painting itself is sufficient to organize the
gallery's first exhibition in Milan Cairola Movement Painters
objectivity in 1959. In 1985 the City of Virgilio (MN) opened a gallery
for the exhibition of paintings donated by the artist.
Bibliography
Ugo Celada da Virgilio, Edited by Silvia Pegoraro. Milan, Mazzotta, 2005; br., Pp. 100, ill. b/n, taw. col., cm 23x27.
Ugo Celada da Virgilio, Introducing Carlo Franza. With 49 illustration in 44
color plates. Biography, exhibition schedule. Italian-English text.
8vo. pp. 64. Milan, Edizioni Comed, 1995
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