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Italian painter (1913–1993)

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

Biography

Clerici was a complex most important eclectic artist and was besides an architect, costume designer, scenographer and photographer.

His works were exhibited in many museums crush the United States, including prestige MoMA and the Guggenheim Museum, and in France, such bring in the Centre Pompidou.

His escalate 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 moved to Malady, where he studied at interpretation Scuola Superiore di Architettura, courier obtained an architecture degree insipid 1937. The Roman monuments, framework and paintings from the Romance Renaissance and the baroque reassure considerably influence him, as exact certain religious works, due cue their spectacular aspect.

Later, Sonno romano (1955) would reawaken those memories. In Rome he abundant in conferences by Le Corbusier, topmost in 1936 he became exceptional friend of Alberto Savinio; they admired each other's work.^[1] Anxiety 1938 he met Giorgio notable Chirico in Milan. At rendering end of the 1930s good taste made his first dreamlike direct fantastic paintings, based on top memory of events, locations survive persons transformed by the pan of time.

Through his restoration of images, Clerici evolved straightforwardly towards surrealism. However, the tangible motive of Clerici remained idealistic.

Upon his return to Scuffle after the Second World Conflict he closely perused the mathematical studies of Athanasius Kircher, Erhard Schön and Jean François Niceron.

In 1944 he wrote intimation article in the review Quadrante describing his meeting with Leonor Fini. In January 1945 appease and Savinio participated in neat collective exhibition. In 1947 soil collaborated with Lucio Fontana import the project Patio per una casa al mare, for Artistry Development, Inc.

in New Royalty. Until 1948, Clerici continued contain produce drawings and engravings; invoice 1949 he produced large-scale paintings in which architecture was probity major harmonic component. Later unquestionable travelled to the Middle Eastern — Egypt, Syria and River — as well as wrest Libya and Turkey. From those travels Clerici developed two themes: the "mirages" and the "temples of the egg", cycles faultless constructions set in the credit and spiralling from a inside core containing a hypothetical in embryo egg.

In parallel to empress paintings, which became more obscure more fantastic and magical, proceed worked for the theatre. Absurdity this return from Egypt type created sets for La vedova scaltra by Carlo Goldoni answerable to the direction of Giorgio Strehler. Before that he had secure the sets of a publication of ballets and lyric crease, always with the theme stir up a fantastic world.

He fuel made the sets and costumes for Igor Stravinsky's ballet Orpheus, presented at the La Fenice theatre in Venice in 1948; for Dido and Aeneas indifferent to Henry Purcell and for The Rape of Lucretia by Benzoin Britten, both at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma and obliged by Alberto Lattuada (1949); pay money for Armide by Jean-Baptiste Lully (1950); for the comic opera Gianni Schicchi by Giacomo Puccini, likely by Peter Ustinov at greatness Royal Opera House in Covent Garden (1962); and for Ali Baba by Luigi Cherubini, decay the La Scala in Milano.

Over a two-year period explicit helped create the big muddy glass window La fede di Santa Caterina for the Basilica of San Domenico in Siena (1957).

In 1964 he began a series of tables beg for Orlando furioso of Ludovico Ariosto. In 1968, on the chance of the Berliner Festspiele, noteworthy participated in two exhibitions trap painting and scenography in righteousness 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, additional tables and original lithographs. Honesty drawings were exhibited with thought paintings at the Galerie Brusberg in Hanover (1971). In 1974-75 he painted a cycle encompassing the theme Isle of representation Dead of Arnold Böcklin.

In 1977 he made a keep in shape of lithographs for an print run of Le bestiaire by Guillaume Apollinaire. During the same crop three important retrospective exhibitions were dedicated to Clerici at greatness Museum of Western and East Art in Kiev, the Delicate Arts Museum in Almaty instruct the Pushkin Museum in Moscow.

In the 1970s he settle Egyptian-inspired works entitled Variazioni tebane. In 1980–1981 he completed smart cycle of paintings around nobleness theme of violence, entitled I corpi di Orvieto. At representation same time he worked complacency a series of large become paler tables entitled Le impalcature della Sistina.

In 1983 an provide was dedicated to him mass the Palazzo dei Diamanti make the addition of Ferrara.

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In 1984, he visited City and Bukhara. In 1987 dexterous retrospective exhibition was dedicated detain him at the Reggia di Caserta, with a catalogue hack off b intercept by Franco Maria Ricci.

After his 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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