Tarcisio Merati

Tarcisio Merati Tarcisio Merati was born in 1934 in Bonate Sopra, near Bergamo. He rebels very soon against his own family life conditions of extreme poverty. He loses his father when he is a little child. His mother remarries with an uncouth man who often beats him. After elementary school and professional training, Tarcisio works […]

Cristina Martella

Cristina Martella Cristina Martella was born in Atri, in the province of Teramo, where she lives and works. As a child she is attracted to painting but she graduated in Economics in Pescara. After university and a short trip to London, she decides to follow her dreams and devotes herself exclusively to painting, moving from […]

Shaul Knaz

Shaul Knaz Shaul Knaz was born in 1939 in Kibbutz Gan Shmuel, Israel, where he has been living for all of his life. Knaz describes his as a social art. Self-taught artist, formerly an illustrator and graphic designer, Knatz observes the situations in his country, in the kibbutz. He cares about the people desire, their […]

Marie-Claire Guyot

Marie-Claire Guyot Marie-Claire Guyot was born in Paris on May 19th, 1937. She studied piano at the Conservatory in Marseilles where she spent her youth. In 1961 she began to paint,  she married Bruno Colombo and moved to Italy, where she lived first in Venice, then in Turin and finally in Milan. But every summer she […]

Mauro Gottardo

Mauro Gottardo Mauro Gottardo was born in Bardonecchia (Turin) in 1965. He lives in Turin. He attended the Franco Balbis Professional Institute where he specialized in graphics and different printing techniques. He later held screen printing courses for schools. During a period of work as a typographer he discovers his love for graphic art and lettering. […]

Agostino Goldani

Agostino Goldani Agostino Goldani was born at Verolanuova (Brescia) on November 6th, 1915.The youngest of five brothers, he was born seven months after his sister Rosa’s death. Desperate because of her nine years old daughter’s loss, his mother nicknamed him “Roso”. Agostino went to school just until elementary school. The family was so poor that at […]

Pietro Ghizzardi

Pietro Ghizzardi Pietro Ghizzardi was born in Viadana (Mantua) in 1906 into a poor family of farmers. As day labourers, his parents are constantly on the move, and his childhood is one of deprivation. He is also a sickly child and, as a result, his schooling was patchy. The Ghizzardi family only put down roots […]

Gaetano Gentile

Gaetano Gentile Gaetano Gentile (Florence, 1965) lives and works in Milan. Decisive for the his career was the meeting, in 1987 in Milan, with AG Fronzoni, internationally renowned designer. In his studio, set to model of a Renaissance workshop, Gentile learns a method to deal with two and three dimensional design. Initially he is mainly […]

Martino Fiorattini

Martino Fiorattini Martino Fiorattini was born in Casteldidone (a small town between Cremona and Mantua) in 1928. He died in Casalmaggiore (Cremona) in 1997. A mild yet sociable character, Martino was born in a farmer’s family, the only of three children who did not emigrate. For no reason after he was fifty years old, he […]

Jean Dubuffet

Jean Dubuffet Jean Dubuffet was born on July 31st in Le Havre (Normandy), the son of a wine merchant. At the age of 18 he moved to Paris studing at the Académie Julian, which he left after six months carrying his painting career on alone. In those years he attended the Parisian artistic scene coming […]