VIRGILIO GUIDI ©

VIRGILIO GUIDI

Virgilio Guidi was born inRome in 1891 and died in Venice in 1984. His painting training took place in the capital under the guidance of Aristide Sartorio, at the Accademia di Belle Arti, and then by Armando Spadini. He later developed his own reflections on Giotto and Piero della Francesca. Guidi owes his fortune, however, to the city of Venice, whose lagoon views he was able to immortalize in the canvases that got him earned him the nickname “poet of light.” In his paintings, in fact, the sense of light is so strong that objects dissolve, arriving at compositions bordering on abstraction, performing a process of synthesis that almost leads to dissolving the objects in the predominant light, brought by the color that occupies almost the entire surface. Recognized unanimously as one of the most important artists of the entire 20th century Italian and European, he had a considerable influence on all the authors of his generation, becoming a point of reference especially for all the young people of the post-World War II abstract avant-garde, for whom Guidi was been a true tutelary deity in particular thanks to the strength of his creative thought. Over the course of his very long career, he participated in numerous editions of the Venice Biennale and exhibited in public and private venues of primary importance. Today, his works can be found in the collections of some of the major museums in Italy and around the world. The Gallery d'Arte Piero Della Francesca has been one of the galleries of reference for the Maestro since the year of its founding, 1969, organizing various solo exhibitions, thematic and group shows in which Guidi has always taken part.