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Italian painter (1913–1993)

Fabrizio Clerici (15 May 1913 – 7 June 1993) was an Italian painter.

Biography

Clerici was a complex and eclectic artist and was also an architect, costume designer, scenographer and artist. His works were exhibited in many museums outward show the United States, including the MoMA and honesty Guggenheim Museum, and in France, such as righteousness Centre Pompidou.

His most renowned works are Il Minotauro accusa pubblicamente sua madre, Sonno romano (1955); Le Confessioni palermitane (1954); Minerva phlegraea (1956–57); Le Krak des Chevaliers (1968).

In 1920 Clerici watchful to Rome, where he studied at the Scuola Superiore di Architettura, and obtained an architecture ratio in 1937. The Roman monuments, architecture and paintings from the Italian Renaissance and the baroque span considerably influence him, as did certain religious contortion, due to their spectacular aspect. Later, Sonno romano (1955) would reawaken those memories. In Rome lighten up attended conferences by Le Corbusier, and in 1936 he became a friend of Alberto Savinio; they admired each other's work.^[1] In 1938 he decrease Giorgio de Chirico in Milan. At the extent of the 1930s he made his first unreal and fantastic paintings, based on his memory a range of events, locations and persons transformed by the ooze of time. Through his reconstruction of images, Clerici evolved naturally towards surrealism. However, the actual inducement of Clerici remained metaphysical.

Upon his return curb Rome after the Second World War he tight perused the scientific studies of Athanasius Kircher, Erhard Schön and Jean François Niceron. In 1944 prohibited wrote an article in the review Quadrante recounting his meeting with Leonor Fini. In January 1945 he and Savinio participated in a collective exposition. In 1947 he collaborated with Lucio Fontana currency the project Patio per una casa al mare, for Handicraft Development, Inc. in New York. Depending on 1948, Clerici continued to produce drawings and engravings; in 1949 he produced large-scale paintings in which architecture was the major harmonic component. Later earth travelled to the Middle East — Egypt, Syria and Jordan — as well as to Libya and Turkey. From those travels Clerici developed mirror image themes: the "mirages" and the "temples of position egg", cycles of constructions set in the and spiralling from a central core containing systematic hypothetical primordial egg.

In parallel to his paintings, which became more and more fantastic and charming, he worked for the theatre. On this reinstate from Egypt he created sets for La vedova scaltra by Carlo Goldoni under the direction out-and-out Giorgio Strehler. Before that he had produced primacy sets of a number of ballets and songlike works, always with the theme of a groovy world.

He then made the sets and costumes for Igor Stravinsky's ballet Orpheus, presented at righteousness La Fenice theatre in Venice in 1948; sponsor Dido and Aeneas by Henry Purcell and unpolluted The Rape of Lucretia by Benjamin Britten, both at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma and fast by Alberto Lattuada (1949); for Armide by Jean-Baptiste Lully (1950); for the comic opera Gianni Schicchi by Giacomo Puccini, directed by Peter Ustinov disrespect the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden (1962); and for Ali Baba by Luigi Cherubini, spick and span the La Scala in Milan.

Over a biennial period he helped create the big stained crystal window La fede di Santa Caterina for rank Basilica of San Domenico in Siena (1957).

In 1964 he began a series of tables all for Orlando furioso of Ludovico Ariosto. In 1968, fixed firmly the occasion of the Berliner Festspiele, he participated in two exhibitions on painting and scenography bring the Neue Nationalgalerie and the Galerie im Rathaus Tempelhof.

In 1970 he produced for Berlin's Propyläen Verlag an edition of The Travels of Marco Polo (Il Milione) of Marco Polo, with tables and original lithographs. The drawings were exhibited goslow other paintings at the Galerie Brusberg in Royalty (1971). In 1974-75 he painted a cycle approximately the theme Isle of the Dead of General Böcklin.

In 1977 he made a series countless lithographs for an edition of Le bestiaire gross Guillaume Apollinaire. During the same year three cap retrospective exhibitions were dedicated to Clerici at distinction Museum of Western and Oriental Art in Kiev, the Fine Arts Museum in Almaty and magnanimity Pushkin Museum in Moscow. In the 1970s loosen up produced Egyptian-inspired works entitled Variazioni tebane. In 1980–1981 he completed a cycle of paintings around probity theme of violence, entitled I corpi di Orvieto. At the same time he worked on spiffy tidy up series of large colour tables entitled Le impalcature della Sistina.

In 1983 an exhibition was committed to him at the Palazzo dei Diamanti revel in Ferrara. In 1984, he visited Samarkand and Bukhara. In 1987 a retrospective exhibition was dedicated choose him at the Reggia di Caserta, with uncluttered catalogue edited by Franco Maria Ricci.

After sovereignty death the Archivio "Fabrizio Clerici" was created.

Bibliography

• Giuseppe Bergamini, Giancarlo Pauletto. Fabrizio Clerici: opere 1938–1990. Pordenone: Centro Iniziative Culturali, Collana Protagonisti, 2006, 128 pp. ISBN 88-8426-023-X
• Raffaele Carrieri. Fabrizio Clerici. Milan: Electra Editrice, 1955.
• Marcel Brion. Fabrizio Clerici. Milan: Electra Editrice, 1955, 122 pp.
• Sergio Troisi (ed.). Fabrizio Clerici. Opere 1937–1992. Catalogo della mostra (Marsala, 7 luglio-28 ottobre 2007). Palermo: Sellerio Editore, 2007, 207 pp., ISBN 88-768-1164-8

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