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Umberto Mastroianni
Composition
c. 1970

Name: Composition
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Composition Original carborundum engraving, c. 1970 Signed: Mastroianni in pencil lower right Edition: 100 (76/100) Printed on a heavy laid paper Condition: Excellent Plate size: 15 7/16 x 11 1/2 inches Sheet size: 20 x 13 3/8 inches Lee Marshall for the Indepenent Saturday 22 October 2011 UMBERTO MASTROIANNI was one of Italy's leading sculptors. After the Second World War, he cornered the market in municipal monuments to the Italian Resistance - which he had participated in - but his towering, dynamic creations in steel and bronze also found a place in museums and sculpture-parks from Los Angeles to Tokyo. Mastroianni came from one of those families that breeds talent - all the more surprising as it was based in the rural backwater of Fontana Liri, in the mozzarella-belt of southern Lazio. His father Vincenzo was a master engraver, a craft that had been handed down from father to son for generations; his mother Luisa Conte was a cousin of the American actor Richard Conte. One of her grandsons, Marcello - Umberto's nephew - would go on to play with clay in his uncle's studio; later he remembered how Umberto had once made the family a Nativity scene out of snow). Umberto travelled to Rome as a young teenager to study at the San Marcello art school and help out his uncle Domenico in his religious sculpture studio in Via Margutta, the Roman Montmartre. Two years later he was off to Turin, where he completed his apprenticeship with the sculptor Michele Guerrisi. Mastroianni thrived on the city's lively art scene, forming friendships with second-wave Futurists like Luigi Spazzapan, who became a sort of mentor for the younger artist. It was another painter, Filippo De Pisis, who obtained Mastroianni his first one-man show, held in Genoa in 1931. Through the Thirties, despite his Futurist sympathies, Mastroianni stayed resolutely figurative, sculpting lifesize bronzes in a pared-back classical manner close to that of Marino Marini. It was in 1942, as Italy's war effort began to disintegrate, that he finally embraced abstraction, developing a style that the critic Cesare Brandi would later define as "Cubist-Futurist". The dynamic fringe of both movements fascinated Mastroianni: his models were Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase No 2 and Boccioni's unfinished sculptural experiments. His first important public commission, the Turin Monumento ai Caduti ("Monument to the Fallen Soldier") of 1945-47, was the first of a number of such commemorative sculptures - those in Cuneo, Urbino, Cassino and Frosinone are the most significant - in which the values of the Resistance were incarnated in a solid energy of broken circles and tilting planes. Mastroianni's neo-Futurist shift was sealed with an influential Parisian show in 1951. Later exhibitions at the Venice Biennale (where he won the sculpture prize in 1958), New York (1964), Florence (1981) and Tokyo (1989) confirmed his international reputation. Though he produced many gallery- sized works in various media - clay, marble, copper and wood - he was never happier than when given the chance to work in bronze or steel on a grand scale, as in the towering Cuneo Resistance monument (1964), "a mountain", wrote the painter, "which served to clear my mind and put those critical labels in perspective". His last work was a pair of huge steel gates for Turin's Teatro Regio opera house, inaugurated in December 1994. The sculptor's long Turin residence ended in 1960, when he moved to Marino, in the Castelli Romani east of Rome. He set up house in a 16th-century palazzo which had once belonged to the poetess Vittoria Colonna, Michelango's muse. Towards the end of his life he himself turned to poetry; he also wrote occasional columns on art for the Rome daily Il Messaggero. In March 1987, he donated a group of 27 works to the Italian state, including a series of polychrome reliefs (they can be seen at the Galleria di arte moderna in Rome). Umberto Mastroianni was a big man with large, eloquent hands and an emphatic way of getting his point across. In moments of creative tension he would jump into his beloved Ferrari Dino and tear around the Castelli - even after he turned 80. Umberto Mastroianni, sculptor: born Fontana Liri, Frosinone, Italy 21 September 1910; married Ida Perlo; died Rome 25 February 1998. UMBERTO MASTROIANNI. SELECTION OF WORK (1931 - 1996) Mirbach Palace (show Contact) 7. 5. 2008 - 15. 6. 2008 Curator: Floriano De Santi BIOGRAPHY IN SHORT Umberto Mastroianni was born in Fontana Liri, an ancient village in the province Frosinone, on 21 September 1910. In the year 1924 he came to Rome, where he used to visit the atelier of his uncle Domenico and drawing courses at the Academy San Marcello. In the year 1926 he moved with his family to Turin and he improved in the “sculpting craft” in the atelier of Michele Guerrisi. In the year 1930 he was for the first time given an official award by the Ministry of Education – “Premio del Turismo” and then gradually were coming subsequent exhibitions on both - national and European level - in the year 1935 Quadrennial in Rome and the following year Biennale in Venice. Filippo De Pisis appreciated his creation a lot, mainly because he was inspired by the ancient art of sculpting, Egyptian and Hellenic sculptures. During WWII he was recruited into the army and then he actively took part in the defence. His own experience from concrete battles for freedom he later carried over into his creation and in this way he created “poetics of the defence” which was credited to him by Giulio Carlo Argan. In Turin he met the painter Luigi Spazzapano, an independent carrier of the alternative line in comparison to the “classicism” of Casorati as well as the cultural position of the group of painters “Gruppo dei Sei” bound to the heritage of the postimpressionists. After the liberation he advertised supranational overcoming of the Italian culture according to the “historical avant-gardes”. In the year 1951 he had his first author’s exhibition in the most famous European gallery Galerie de France in Paris. However, he received his highest award at the XXIX Biennale in Venice in 1958, when he got the prize “Grand Premio Internazionale for the art of sculpting”. In the years 1961 – 1969 he was the head of the Academy of Arts in Bologna, where he was also the head of the department of sculpting, from Turin he moved in the year 1970 to Marino Laziale, he taught first at the Academy of Arts in Naples and later in Rome. In the year 1973 the Academy Lincei awarded him with the prize “Premio Antonio Feltrinelli” for the “high ideal and shape quality of his work, remarkable influence onto the development of the modern sculpting art in Italy and mainly for his most important work Monumento alla Resistenza di Cuneo, which is a synthesis of a strong shaping engagement and a gigantic citizen’s feeling”. In the year 1979 the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville in Paris again introduced the whole sculpting creation of Mastroianni in the cycle on post-war Italian sculpting. A year later, Floriano De Santi was the curator of an overview of his chromed sculptures, drawings, wooden reliefs and carvings. The works that time exhibited in Palazzo Ducale in Urbino, stress the creative expression, which for years is the object of interest of a few specialists. In the year 1979, almost like a proof of his infinite experimental talent he prepared for the Roman opera the scenography Coro dei morti according to the literary pattern from the poet Giacomo Leopardi and the music by Goffredo Petrassi. In the year 1993 in Arpino (in the spaces of the Palazzo Ducale Boncompagni) and in Rome (in spaces of San Salvatore in Lauro) two Mastroianni’s museums opened under the leadership of Floriano De Santi. In the year 1994 the immense artwork Cancellata was placed into the Royal theatre in Turin and Mastroianni was awarded honourable citizenship. In the night of the 25 February 1998 after a long and hard illness, Mastroianni died in his house – museum in Marino. Seven years after his death the Museo del Corso in Rome organised an important retrospective exhibition with the title “Umberto Mastroianni, sculptor of European importance” which introduced a collection of 170 works from the years 1927-28 – 1997.

Creator:
Umberto Mastroianni (1910 - 1998, Italian)
Creation Year:
c. 1970
Dimensions:
Height: 15.44 in (39.22 cm)Width: 11.5 in (29.21 cm)
Medium:
Etching
Movement & Style:
Abstract
Period:
1970-1979
Condition:
Gallery Location:
Fairlawn, OH
Reference Number:
Seller: FA120041stDibs: LU1408234802

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