Gigi Candiani "Atmosfere Rarefatte enclosed in an intimate search divided between natural forms and colors". Thus, the art critic and journalist Alain Chivilò synthesizes a life dedicated to the painting of the Master.
The painter Gigi (Luigi) Candiani was born in Mestre on 05/07/1903. A town that is without any doubts bound by family tradition bakery to Art.
From the artistic point of view, Gigi Candiani begins his studies at the School of Art "Ticozzi" of Mestre with Professor Giuseppe Urbani De Gheltof. The places of the subjects painted in his works ranging from Venice, Treviso, Padua, Vicenza, Comacchio to Ravenna. The first exhibition took place in 1926. Gigi Candiani also participates in the collective Opera Bevilacqua La Masa from 1929 to 1961, four editions of the National Art Quadrennial of Rome and three editions of the Biennale of Art in Venice.
Gigi (Luigi) Candiani died in Mestre on 14/09/1963.
Recently, the innovative monographs written by art critic and curator dr Alain Chivilò. On 2013 "Gigi Candiani Tessere di vita". On 2015 after numerous requests by who appreciated the revious work, the art critic and curator dr Alain Chivilò wrote the new monograph "Gigi Candiani Atmosfere Rarefatte" in a new limited edition completely revised, with expanded content in a new format. Images and unpublished documents never been published before about the artist and his family, through a new discussion writen for the first time.
On 2017, from 6 to 28 of may, the city of Conegliano Veneto, starting from an idea and a proposal by art critic and curator Alain Chivilò, during request/concession of the free patronage logo for the publication "Gigi Candiani Atmosfere Rarefatte", organizes a retrospective exhibition at Palazzo Sarcinelli, Galleria del Novecento.
On 2017 Gigi Candiani finally returns to Poerio Street in Mestre. After a year of pause, the monograph "Gigi Candiani Atmosfere Rarefatte" returns to the artist hometown, known for his bakery. On Thursday, October 12, at 6 pm at the Centro Le Grazie in Via Poerio 32, Alain Chivilò, with the Circolo Veneto and his journalist colleague Daniela Zamburlin, presents the book that brought Candiani to the present.
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