펠리체 카소라티(Felice Casorati), 이탈리아, 화가, 1883-1963

펠리체 카소라티(Felice Casorati), 이탈리아, 화가, 1883-1963

펠리체 카소라티(Felice Casorati), 이탈리아, 화가, 1883-1963

펠리체 카소라티(Felice Casorati), 이탈리아, 화가, 1883-1963

펠리체 카소라티(Felice Casorati), 이탈리아, 화가, 1883-1963

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펠리체 카소라티(Felice Casorati), 이탈리아, 화가, 1883-1963

펠리체 카소라티(Felice Casorati), 이탈리아, 화가, 1883-1963

펠리체 카소라티(Felice Casorati), 이탈리아, 화가, 1883-1963

펠리체 카소라티(Felice Casorati), 이탈리아, 화가, 1883-1963

펠리체 카소라티(Felice Casorati), 이탈리아, 화가, 1883-1963

펠리체 카소라티(Felice Casorati), 이탈리아, 화가, 1883-1963

 

펠리체 카소라티(Felice Casorati), 이탈리아, 화가, 1883-1963

'펠리체 카소라티'는 이탈리아의 상징주의  화가입니다. 법학을 공부했으나 화가의 꿈을 이루기 위해, 베니스 비엔날레에 수차례 도전 끝에 데뷔했습니다.

 

한동안 그의 작품은 기하학적이고 명료한 형식이 강조되었는데, 전쟁의 혼란기 이후 질서를 되찾으려는 사회적 분위기의 영향이었죠.

 

무겁고 우울한 느낌의 작품들은, 시간이 지나며 점차 밝은 스타일로 바뀌었습니다.

 

                                                                                                   About Him

 

Felice Casorati (Novara, 1883 - Turin, 1963) was one of the most important artists of the twentieth century in Italy, and one of the longest-lived of his time, having lived through the avant-garde period, the return to order, the period of fascism up until the post-war period. He initially approached symbolism , with an eye open to the international scene (he was particularly fascinated by the Viennese Secession of the likes of Gustav Klimt , Oskar Kokoschka and colleagues), but he also looked to Cézanne, and was always very close to the main critics and collectors of his time (from Piero Gobetti to Lionello Venturi, from Antonio Casella to Riccardo Gualino). In particular, the artist struck up a fruitful friendship with Riccardo Gualino, who commissioned works from him (including the decoration of his private theatre) and developed in him an interest in the applied arts.

 

A multifaceted artist, he participated several times in the Venice Biennale , had a prolific graphic activity and was not only a painter but also a sculptor, architect, set designer and, as mentioned, developed interests in the applied and decorative arts, a field in which he had the opportunity to express himself, for example, with the mosaics for the VI Triennale of Milan and for the Gualino house theatre itself. A painter still highly appreciated today by the market, the general public knows Casorati above all for the art of the 1920s, when Casorati was included in the trends of the return to order, together with artists such as Carlo Carrà , Arturo Martini and Massimo Campigli (Casorati, in particular, developed a neo-Renaissance style , the one most often associated with him by the public and enthusiasts).

 

Difficult to pigeonhole into a specific current, it is nevertheless often associated with magical realism : this expression refers to an expressive modality typical of Italy in the 1920s which, having rejected the Futurist and Expressionist avant-gardes, is based on realistic images that, however, are presented with a “cold, clear, often investigated in the smallest details, so realistic as to inevitably reveal themselves to be disturbing and alienating”, as Gabriella Belli and Valerio Terraroli, curators of the Magic Realism exhibition held at the Palazzo Reale in Milan from 19 October 2021 to 27 February 2022, wrote. Casorati was one of the most original and modern representatives of this trend that would characterize Italian art from approximately 1920 to 1935, and is therefore considered one of the main Italian artists of the period.

 

Felice Casorati was born in Novara on 4 December 1883 to Francesco, a soldier (permanent officer) and Caterina Borgarelli. Due to his father's profession, the family moved frequently. In 1895 the Casoratis settled in Padua , where Felice completed his studies, graduating in law in 1906 : however, despite being set on a career in the legal sector, he developed a strong passion for the arts, particularly music, but he also dabbled as a painter, so much so that in 1907 he tried to send some works to the VII Venice Biennale, including a Portrait of his sister Elvira (now in a private collection) which was accepted (the critics were in fact convinced they were dealing with a very promising young man: Casorati was only twenty-four at the time). Between 1908 and 1911 he moved to Naples, but he did not like it and in 1911 he moved to Verona, where he founded the magazine La via Lattea , for which he also produced illustrations in art nouveau style. In 1912 he took part in the XI Venice Biennale and in 1913 he was among the artists who participated in the exhibition at Ca' Pesaro: in the rooms of the Venetian institute, Casorati exhibited 41 works (Ca' Pesaro would become so important to him that he refused an invitation to the Biennale in 1920 to continue exhibiting at Ca' Pesaro). In 1915 he exhibited at the Secessione Romana, after which he was called to serve in the army during the First World War. After the death of his father in 1917, his mother and sisters moved to Vercelli, and Felice also returned to Piedmont, where he met Piero Gobetti and Riccardo Gualino. It was in 1920 that Felice met the art of Paul Cézanne at the Venice Biennale, to whose study he devoted himself passionately. In 1923, having become one of the most prominent artists in Italy, he exhibited at the Rome Quadriennale and in 1924 he even had a solo exhibition, curated by Lionello Venturi, while in 1925 he founded, together with Alberto Sartoris, Annibale Rigotti and Mario Sombrero, the Società di Belle Arti “Antonio Fontanesi” of which he was also president.

 

In the 1920s, after having deepened his acquaintance with Riccardo Gualino, he was commissioned by the latter to decorate the private theatre in his home, despite his inexperience in decorative arts. The theatre was inaugurated in 1925, although it remained active only until 1930 (moreover, curiously in the same years Casorati also worked as a set designer : an activity that would keep him busy for a long time, so much so that the artist also worked for the Teatro Civico in Turin). In 1930 he married the English painter Daphne Maugham and on 2 July 1934 his son Francesco was born. Having become an artist of European fame, he began to rack up several successes: the Carnegie Prize in Pittsburgh in 1937, the prize of the Municipality of Venice at the 1938 Biennale, the Grand Prix in Paris in 1939, and in the same year the Painting Prize at the International Art Exhibition in San Francisco. Again, in 1941 he became Professor of Painting at the Albertina Academy in Turin , and he became director of the same institute in 1952, and in the same year he had another solo exhibition at the Venice Biennale, while (another curiosity) in 1955 he worked for Fiat, painting a picture for the launch of the new Fiat 600. In 1960 his sister Elvira passed away and in 1961 his health worsened, and due to an embolism his left leg was amputated, but this did not stop him from painting and, indeed, in 1962 he was present at the XXXI Venice Biennale with seventeen works. The artist passed away in Turin on March 1, 1963.

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