Arturo Carmassi The Path of the Master
Detail of the work “Farewell, Farewell, Farewell.”
Some who have written about Arturo Carmassi:
Marziano Bernardi, Luigi Carluccio, Alberto Rossi, L.P., Paolo Cesarini, Marco Valsecchi, Guido Ballo, M. Masciotta, Gillo Dorfles, Franco Russoll, Nello Ponente, Mario Negri, Umbro Apollonio, Enrico Crispoliti, Raffaele Carrieri, Christina Zervos, Tristan Sauvage, Giorgio Kaisserlian, Pier Carlo Santini, Marcello Venturoli, U.P., Beniamino Joppolo, Emilio Radius, Patrick Waldberg, Franco Passoni, Mario Lepore, Dino Buzzati, Vittorio Notarnicola, Giorgio Mascherpa, Gianni Cavazzini, Garibaldo Marussi, Mario Monteverdi, Giorgio Kaisserlian, Jaques Lassaigne, Elda Fezzi, Carlo Fumagalli, Paolo Manzoni, Pedro Fiori, Mario De Micheli, M. Harlepp, Mario Portalupi, Alberto Macchiavello, Raffaele De Grada, Mario Perazzi, Miklos N. Varga, Riccardo Barletta, Dino Villani, Vittorio Notarnicola, Pierre Klossowski, Leonardo Sciascia, Emilio Radius.
Works in public collections
Museum of Modern Art, Milan.
Museum of Modern Art, Asti.
Museum of Modern Art, Florence.
Uffizi Gallery, Florence.
Museum of Modern Art, Rome.
Gallery of Modern Art, Turin.
Ghetto Museum, Tel Aviv.
Museum of Modern Art, La Spezia.
Museum of Modern Art, Chieti.
Gabinetto delle Stampe del Museo Sforzesco, Milan.
Museum of Erotic Art, San Francisco.
Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, Fribourg.
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris.
Brooklyn Museum, New York.
Museum of Modern Art, Stockholm.
FILMS AND MAJOR RADIO AND TELEVISION INTERVIEWS
1977
Arturo Carmassi im Museum fur Kunst und Geschichte in Fribourg, interview by Michel Terrapon for Suisse Romande Television, 15 minutes, color
June 1977
Lola Bonora, Conversations with Arturo Carmassi and Franco Farina on the exhibition at the Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna, Palazzo dei Diamanti, Ferrara, May-
Carmassi Miscellany: Portrait of an Artist, MASP/Geneva/São Paulo Production, 16 mm film, color, running time 19 minutes
1979
A come Artiste, series of interviews dedicated to Arturo Carmassi by “France-Culture” and broadcast on Radio-France on May 23, 24, 25, 28 and 29, 1979
1980
L’Art et les hommes: Arturo Carmassi le Toscan, a film written and produced by Jean-Marie Drot for French Television and co-produced by the
T.F.I. and the S.F.P., 16 mm film, color, running time 59 minutes
Arturo Carmassi, Peintre, Graveur et Sculpteur Toscan, interview series by Michel Terrapon for the cultural program of Radio Television of the
“Suisse Romande,” Geneva, January and March 1983 and rebroadcast by Canadian R.B.C. in October 1983
1989
Portrait d’Artiste, Arturo Carmassi, peintre, graveur et sculpteur, interview film made by Liliane Thorn Petit, for R.T.L. – Radio television
Luxembourgish, 16 mm film, color, running time 19 minutes
Detail of the work “The Power”
Detail of the work “Pataphysical Model”
EXHIBITIONS AND EVENTS
1946“National Exhibition of Black and White” Turin
1947 solo exhibition at the “Saletta del Grifo”
1949 and 1951 gallery “The Compass”
1949 and 1950 “International Art Club Exhibition,” Turin
1951 “Painters of Today Meetings Italy – France.”
1952 invitation “XXVI Biennale Internazionale d’Arte,” Venice
1953 “Piolo della Spezia National Painting Prize.”
1953 “Junge Italienische Color” at Kunsthaus Zurich
1953 group show at Galleria il Milione, Milan
1954 solo exhibition at Galleria il Milione, Milan
1954 solo show at “Ia Medusa” gallery, Rome
1954 invitation to the “Biennale” in São Paulo, Brazil,
1954 invitation to the “Carnegie Institute” in Pittsburgh.
1954 invitation to the “XXVII Biennale” in Venice
1957 invitation to the decoration of the ceiling of the hall of honor of the “Triennale d’Architettura” in
Milan
1957 “Brooklyn Museum” in New York
1957 “Darmstädter Session – Italienischen Bildhauern” in Darmstadt
1958 “Biennale of Sculpture” in Antwerp
1958 “Junge Italienische Plastik” in Darmstadt and Dusseldorf.
1959 solo exhibition at the “Odyssia” gallery in Rome and
1959 solo exhibition at the “Galatea” in Turin
1960 exhibition at “Il Milione,” Milan
1962, invitation to the “XXXI International Art Biennale” in Venice with a room personally dedicated to his plastic works
1967 solo exhibition gallery “Il Milione” in Milan, monograph Raffaele Corrieri.
1969 solo show at “Trentadue” gallery in Milan, directed by Alfredo Paglione, catalog introduction Patrick Waldberg
1972 solo exhibition at the “Trentadue” gallery in Milan
1977 “Palazzo dei Diamanti” in Ferrara, presented in the catalog by Pierre Restany and organized by the then director of the “Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna” Franco Farina
1978 State Calcografia e Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica,” Rome, catalog introduced by Arnold Kohler, Giuseppe Cantelli, and Dominique Baechler
1978 “Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts Palais de Rumine,” Lausanne
1978 “Museu de Arte de São Paulo,” São Paulo
1979 “Fundação cultural de Brasilia,” Brasilia
1980 “Palazzo dei Diamanti,” Ferrara
1980 “Real Collegio de España,” Bologna
1980 “Maison de la Culture André Malraux” in Rennes and Reims with catalog accompanied by an essay by Bram A.M. Hammacher
1981 invitation to the “Institut Collégial Européen” to participate in the Loches en Touraine International Colloquia on Culture and Media directed by Gilbert Gadoffre, opened with a conversation by Carmassi and Nathalie Sarraute on
Difficult Communication
.
1982 exhibitions at the Art History Institutes of the Universities of Innsbruck and Köln, accompanied by a catalog introduced by Pier Carlo Santini and Hans T. Siepe.
1983 “Quadriennale Nazionale d’Arte” in Rome
1983 “First Itinerant Exhibition of Small Sculpture,” presented in Museums in the United States and Latin America.
1984 “Castello Monumentale” in Lerici, catalog by Filiberto Menna.
1985-1986 creates the statue Le Grand Minotaure d’Auserre, for the gardens of the Jacques-Amiot high school in downtown Auxerre.
1986 abbey Saint-Germain, Auxerre, catalog, edited and introduced by Jean-Marie Drot
1987 Versiliana Park, exhibition curated by Pier Carlo Santini
1987 “Academy of France,” Villa Medici Rome, director Jean-Marie Drot
1988 “Museum of Contemporary Art” Arezzo
1988 ‘Hommage a Vincent Van Gogh” organized by the “Van Gogh Foundation” in Arles.
1989 Bibliothèque Municipale d’Auxerre, exhibition
Arturo Carmassi graveur
1990 Strasbourg, solo exhibition organized by FNAC, Ville de Strasbourg and Conseil de l’Europe
1990 British Petroleum in Paris (Cergy Saint-Christophe)
Ganos
, a 5.40-meter-high iron sculpture.
1991 solo exhibition at the “Simoncini” gallery in Luxembourg
1992 gallery ‘Il Ponte” Florence
1992- 1993 retrospective Palazzo Lanfranchi, Pisa, essay by Pierre Restany
1994 “Il Ponte” gallery in Florence works on paper from 1977 to 1994
1994 “Sante Moretto” gallery in Monticello Conte Otto (Vicenza), catalog accompanied by a poetic text by Andrea Zanzotto
1995 publication, title Sabbie, introduced in the catalog by Geno Pampaloni then exhibited at the galleries “Il Ponte” in Florence and “Sante Moretto” in Monticello Conte Otto (Vicenza).
1995 creation of a large travertine fountain for the city of Auxerre entitled G
anos Il
;
1995 “Il Ponte” editions in Italy and “Le Moniteur” editions in France initiate a coedition to celebrate, with a large monograph devoted to his painting from 1945 to 1995, his seventieth birthday, which was presented the following year on numerous prestigious occasions. 1997 exhibition “Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice curated by Luca Baldin and Chiara Bertola, with a poetic text by Bernard Manciet in the catalog.
1998 gallery “Gana-Beaubourg” in Paris presents a major exhibition of his recent works.
1999 “Marzotto Foundation” retrospective of the city of Valdagno presented in the catalog by Giuliano Menate and Marina Pizziolo.
