Founding atrists

Who’s next?… Vera Pagava

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by Valentina Biondini, art and literature amateur

The Great Suburb, 1953

Vera Pagava (1907-1988) was the first Georgian female artist to gain recognition in the European art world. She was a well-rounded artist, devoted herself to drawing, decoration, and especially painting over the course of a fifty years career. She emigrated to Europe with her family in the 1920s, shortly before Georgia’s annexation by the Soviet Union. First, she settled in Germany and then in Paris, where she remained for the rest of her life, while maintaining strong ties to her homeland. Read more →

Who’s next?… Katy Castellucci

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by Valentina Biondini, art and literature amateur

Autoritratto con compasso, 1950

Katy Castellucci’s name rings out loud in Who’s Next? and 20th century Italian art. In fact, she was one of the most significant artists of that heterogeneous group of painters active in Rome between the 20s and 40s of the 900s century that goes by the name of Scuola Romana. Painter, portraitist and weaver, she best represented this unconventional artistic current thanks to an extreme sensitivity and a multifaceted and original visual taste. Her shy and restless character is hidden behind the enchantment of her works, which greatly influenced the Italian art of that time. Read more →

Who’s next?… Fernando Melani

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by Valentina Biondini, art and literature amateur

Melani’s Studio-Home

This time we focus our attention on what was considered the “first post-war artist-scientist” and “the last of the millennium”. We are talking about Fernando Melani from Pistoia, whose creative dimension was inspired by reflections on matter and atom, and then approached, even anticipating, the influences of Arte Povera, Conceptual Art and Minimal Art.

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Who’s next?…Hannah Höch 

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by Valentina Biondini, literature amateur

The beautiful girl

Hannah Höch, stage name of Anna Therese Johanne Höch, was born in Gotha, Germany, in 1889. Mainly known for the work she produced during the Weimar Republic, today she is considered one of the greatest artists of the twentieth century Dadaist season and a pioneer in the technique of photomontage. Hannah Höch is in fact the woman who innovated the collage technique, elaborating images taken from different types of magazines, in a continuous cross-reference of political-cultural ideas. Read more →

Who’s next?… Gino Rossi

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Written by Valentina Biondini, literature expert

La fanciulla del fiore

Since it is not only female artists who are forgotten, “Who’s Next?” decided to write about a young male artist, whose modern approach to painting can be defined ante litteram, and his personal story has fueled the myth of the mad painter. This is Gino Rossi, a figure unjustly ignored by the artistic world in toto, but even by the young generations of painters who instead owe him so much. Read more →