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PINO MANOS

Pino MANOS (Sassari 1930 – Milan 2020) Italian artist Pino Manos was born in Sassari, in Sardinia, in 1930. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts and at the Polytechnic University in Milan before completing his diploma in architecture in Florence. He travelled extensively across the world and settled permanently in Milan in 1968,...

EMMALISA MATTEAZZI SENIN

EMMALISA MATTEAZZI SENIN (Este, Padova 1914 – Bologna 1995) She studies in Vicenza, where she lives with her parents and five brothers. Following her great passion for painting, her family allows her to continue her artistic studies in Venice with the painter Alessandro Milesi from 1933 to 1936. In 1936 she marries Angelo Senin and...

PIERRE LESAGE

Pierre Alexis LESAGE (Nantes, 1872 – 1932)   MUSEI 52 opere sono conservate presso il Musée des Beaux-Arts di Nantes.

GABRIELE ZAGO

Gabriele Zago is an art director who lives and works in Turin. He is a photographer and a great traveler. These two aspects have always inspired him, leading him to explore new languages ​​to communicate. His research consists in documenting in images ethnic groups, territories and populations today threatened by progress and globalization, using post-production graphic...

ODILON ROCHE

Odilon ROCHE (Châteauneuf-sur-Loire 1868 – Six-Fours-les Plages 1947) Odilon Roche was one among many fascinating characters in Paris in the first quarter of the 20th century. He actually began his professional career as a wine taster, travelling throughout Europe attending wine fairs. In 1902 Roche opened a shop in Montmartre selling artists’ supplies, among his...

DORA MAAR

Dora MAAR (Paris 1907 –  1997) Dora Maar, original name Henrietta Theodora Markovitch (Marković), French photographer and Surrealist artist whose career and accomplishments were overshadowed during her lifetime by the details of her affair with Pablo Picasso. Her work was resurrected and reexamined more thoughtfully after her death. Maar, whose mother was French and father...

ANDREJ LEVITIN

Andrej LEVITIN (St. Petersburg 1947) Andrej Levitin was born in St. Petersburg in 1947 into a family of artists, the painters Maya Kopitzeva and Anatolij Levitin. Little Andrjusha spent the early years of his childhood in the “children’s room” inside the Academy of Fine Arts, a sort of kindergarten set up in the difficult postwar...

ANDRE MASSON

André MASSON (Balagny-sur-Oise 1896 – Paris 1987) André Masson, versatile artist, dedicated his creativity to the exploration of the irrational world. He studied at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels and the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He fought during World War I and was seriously injured. A large part of Masson’s...

VIKTOR KONOVALOV

VIKTOR KONOVALOV

VIKTOR KONOVALOV (Uidol, Vladimir region 1912 – Moscow 1995) Russian painter and graphic designer. He was born into a family of modest conditions in the small village of Uidol. Despite the opposition of his parents, he moved to Moscow with the ambition of becoming an artist. In 1936 he entered the Surikov Art Institute, where...

CAROL RAMA

CAROL RAMA

Carol RAMA, Olga Carolina Rama (Turin 1918 – 2015) A self-taught artist, Rama refused adherence to any one specific style, method, or group during her seven-decade career. Beginning in the 1930s, Rama began to create an aesthetic vocabulary filled with icons that were linked to issues of real-life mental illness, financial ruin, and suicide, woven...

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