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 AfricaRepresentatives
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/societyhuman being
Artistic periods
1958 : Abstract compositions, Use of steel1952-1957 : Construction of composition, Vertical abstraction, use of Iron
1950-1952 : Abstraction
1933-1949 : Expressionism
Organic (often Figurative) Abstraction
Movements and styles
ClassicismAbstraction
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