Remo Brindisi

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Remo Brindisi was born in Rome in 1918. He began to indulge his passion by attending the School of Art Pens, where his father taught wood carving. Followed, in Rome, courses of scenography at the Centro Sperimentale, although for a limited time, and the free lessons at the School of Fine Arts Nude, until he obtained a scholarship to the Art Institute for the illustration of the Book of Urbino.
Along the course of his life, also pushed from external motivation to his career, Brindisi traveled extensively, reaching major cities such as Florence, Venice, Milan and Paris also.
During the Second World War he was called to serve, experience that led him to Florence, happy moments where he lived next door to friends and artists such as Soft Ardengo Ottone Rosai.
In 1940 his first solo show took place, Florence, where he presented works of lyrical and descriptive approach, with the presentation made to the catalog by Eugenio Montale.
He was also taken prisoner by the Germans but, escaped, until they have sought refuge in Venice Liberation.
In the capital began to bind to Venetian art dealer Charles Cardazzo, which allowed him to carry out an intense activity at the premises of the exhibition The Horse Gallery.
In addition, between the forties and fifties he participated in the Venice Biennale as well as all the Quadrennial, using characters in the new Expressionist figuration, with trends close to the informal style.
Remo Brindisi moved to Milan in 1947, Cardazzo which had just opened the new Galleria Naviglio. These were years of artistic turbulence, Brindisi in which first came to be part of the Group Line, resulting in a flattening in the direction of his Cubist figures, and then, the dissolution of the group in 1950, approached the Realism.
The link with Realism, however, was not sustained, broke away early as 1955, following a personal retrospective dedicated to him at the Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea of ​​Milan and a staff in Zurich.
He was also president of the Triennale di Milano, in 1973, was professor and director of the Academy of Fine Arts in Macerata, and received the Gold Medal of Education for cultural merits.
His passion for art and culture also led him to found, in 1970 Lido Spina in Ferrara, The Alternative Museum, payable to his name, with the aim of collecting works by major contemporary artists from around the world.
Never stopped his exhibitions that took him to get awards and recognition beyond national borders. Acknowledged even by critics today as one of the greatest painters of the twentieth-century Italian, died at the Lido Spina 1996.
Remo Brindisi painted works great with cyclical issues, many of them linked to social issues, that led him to become a chronicler of collective suffering, who gave his paintings to an epic. Especially during the Fascist period his work was aimed at telling the crimes and horrors that the human mind was capable of generating.
His works still speak to us of personal feelings, inner, traumatic memories after years of re-emerging as nightmares.

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