La fin des jeux, le soir

Born in Bologna on 26 November 1925. In 1936, when his father was transferred to Paola in Calabria, he had the decisive opportunity to get to know Southern Italy, still profoundly crafted, and the Mediterranean light to which he will always be bound. Thanks to a scholarship from the Collegio Venturoli won in 1941, he attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna for four years, where his masters are Alfredo Protti, Guglielmo Pizzirani, Farpi Vignoli and Luciano Minguzzi. With Guglielmo Pizzirani he is bound to a deep friendship, shared with his friend painter Dino Boschi. In 1948 he had his first exhibition in Verona. In Bologna he met Giorgio Morandi. Through him he received another scholarship, which in 1951 enabled him to stay in Paris. His first clients he found in the USA; due to an exhibition in the gallery of Catherine Viviano in 1952. This gallery hosted three more exhibitions of his work during the next ten years