Woodcut Astratto by Luigi Veronesi, 1968

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Luigi Veronesi (Milan 1908 - Milan 1998) was an Italian painter, photographer, set designer and engraver. At the beginning of his artistic career he attended a course for textile designer and studied photography and its various techniques. At twenty years he approached painting by attending the Accademia Carrara in Bergamo. He gradually detached himself from the academic imprint to arrive at a geometric abstractionism thanks to the 1932 stay in Paris where he befriended Fernard Leger (Argentan, 1881 - Gif-sur-Yvette 1955) that will allow him to deepen his knowledge of Russian and Dutch constructivism. Later he joined the Parisian group Astraction - Création, an artistic group that promoted abstractionism in the '30s with the intent to counteract the surrealism, and is interested in cinema and theater making six experimental films. In 1934 he participated in the collective exhibition of abstract art of Italy along with those artists who signed the "Manifesto of the First Collective Exhibition of Italian Abstract Art" as Oreste Bogliardi, Cristoforo De Amicis, Ezio D'Errico, Lucio Fontana, Virginio Ghiringhelli and Osvaldo Licini. During the war his skills as a draftsman are used to create false documents in the service of the National Liberation Movement. After the war he works both as a graphic designer and an advertiser and is interested in another art form, music. In fact, he tries to transform the mathematical relationships between musical notes into tonal relationships between colors so as to achieve a dual reality of the work of art. From 1973 to 1977 he teaches composition and chromatology at the Academy of Brera. In this fine silograph from the black background emerge lines and geometric shapes that seem to float in the air. These chase each other, intertwine, create a sort of musicality that makes the work harmonious and solemn. They look like sails and poles, different in shape, size and chiaroscuro contrasts, but that form a single balanced composition. Bottom pencil L.Veronsi 1968 and 3/50. Excellent impression, with intense blacks, on Chinese paper, very good condition. Wide margins beyond the beat of the copper. The work is preserved in a cardboard folded like a folder on which you can read in the author's handwriting "Gli auguri dei tre Veronesi 1968/69". The woodcut is a gift from the author's family to their doctor. Bibliography: G.Viazzi, Luigi Veronesi, 1980; Patani/ Luigi Veronesi Catalogo Generale dell'Opera Grafica 1927-1983.

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