biografía de Edoardo VILLA (1915/20-2011)

Personal data


Birth : 05/31/1920 - Bergamo BG Lombardy, Italy
Death : 05/01/2011 - Johannesburg, South Africa
Sex : M
Nationality/Affiliation : South Africa

Address

Johannesburg, South Africa

Representatives

Leslie Sacks Fine Art – Brentwood 11640 San Vicente Boulevard – Los Angeles CA, United States


Education

1933 : Scuola d’Arte applicata Andrea Fantoni (diploma) – Bergamo BG, Italy

Professional data


Work and Life

1939:Lives and works in Milano, Italy
1937 – 1938:Lives and works in Bergamo, Italy


Medals

1990

1990 : University of Pretoria – Chancellor’s medal – South Africa

Work


Categorie and medium


Sculpture-Volume : Bronze - Metal - Stone
Drawing-Watercolor :

Subject

history/society
human being

Artistic periods

1958 : Abstract compositions, Use of steel
1952-1957 : Construction of composition, Vertical abstraction, use of Iron
1950-1952 : Abstraction
1933-1949 : Expressionism
Organic (often Figurative) Abstraction

Movements and styles

Classicism
Abstraction

Works

Mother and child
Date of creation : 1982
Medium : Sculpture
Materials : bronze
Size : 294 cm
 
The Knot
Date of creation : 1980
Medium : Sculpture
Materials : metal
Process : painting
Size : 500 cm
 

Solo Exhibitions (Selected)


Solo exhibitions

1997

Everard Read Gallery – Johannesburg, South Africa
1997

1988

Retrospective
Rand Afrikaans University – Johannesburg, South Africa
1988

1987

A Few of the Important Ones
JAG Johannesburg Art Gallery – Johannesburg, South Africa
1987

Group Exhibitions (Selected)


Art shows / fairs

1995

Biennale de Sculpture de Monte Carlo
Marisa Del Re Gallery – Monte Carlo, Monaco
1995


Group exhibitions

1964

32° Biennale di Venezia
Giardini di Castello / Arsenale – Venice VE, Italy
1964

1959

Bienal Internacional de São Paulo
São Paulo, Brazil
1959

1953

5000 years of South African Art
Pretoria, South Africa
1953

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