Carlo Paganini
Milano, Italy
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Carlo Paganini was born in Milan on 12-12-1917.
After a course in sculpture at the Castello Sforzesco in Milan, he completed his studies at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts, obtaining with the Maturità artistica the Carotti prize in art history.
He participated in the Venetian Biennials, the Quadrennial in Rome, the Triennials of Decorative Art in Milan ( silver medal at the IX),of the bronze (Padua), the City of Carrara Prize, the International Exhibition of S.Paolo of Brazil, the Iterational of Strasbourg, the Schettini Gallery (Milan).
An artistic career that began with his graduation from the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in 1941, continued with institutional assignments as the holder of the chair of sculpture at the Liceo Artistico di Brera and in 1978 as Director of the School of Art at the Castello Sforzesco in Milan. Appointments to which Paganini has constantly flanked a personal ethical as well as aesthetic itinerary to which the themes he has dealt with bear witness. Works from the 1960s/70s such as the Maternities, belonging to the cycle The War and the Hunger of the World, and Agadir , dedicated to the victims of the earthquake that devastated the city in 1959, recount with an expressionist language reminiscent of Otto Dix's horror, the commitment of an art attentive to life and the tragedies of humanity. A language that, while still investigating and wanting to represent man and his existential condition, evolves over the years toward greater formal rigor. His figures lose their sense of the tragic and become charged with an ecstatic tension that propels the gaze to an upward movement to grasp, as Federico Fellini wrote, "the natural gothicity of his language" .
Solo shows at Galleria Gian Ferrari, Montenapoleone (Milan), Cologne,Verona and Assisi.
His works appear in public institutions, galleries and private collections in Milan, Turin, Rome, Novara, Verona, Assisi, St.Wendel (Sarrbruchen), Salzburg, Cologne, S.Paolo del Brasile
The Bandera Foundation for Art will open an exhibition dedicated to sculptor Carlo Paganini on Sunday, December 3, 2017, at 6 p.m. The drawings and sculptures on display come from the donation of an important nucleus of works to the Bandera Foundation for Art desired by the master's wife, Angela Paganini, after her husband's death in 1993. The occasion to retrace the most significant moments of an artistic research that began in the 1940s is given by the centenary of Paganini's birth. From the donation, articulated around a hundred works, including sculptures, drawings and engravings made between 1938 and 1991, a series of works have been chosen for the exhibition through which it is intended to enhance an artistic path that began with his graduation from the Brera Academy in 1941, continued with institutional assignments as the holder of the chair of sculpture at the Brera Art School and in 1978 as Director of the School of Art at the Castello Sforzesco in Milan. Appointments to which Paganini has constantly flanked a personal ethical as well as aesthetic itinerary to which the themes he has dealt with bear witness. Works from the 1960s/70s such as the Maternities, belonging to the cycle The War and Hunger of the World, and Agadir , dedicated to the victims of the earthquake that devastated the city in 1959, recount with an expressionist language reminiscent of Otto Dix's horror, the commitment of an art attentive to life and the tragedies of humanity. A language that, while still investigating and wanting to represent man and his existential condition, evolves over the years toward greater formal rigor. His figures lose their sense of the tragic and become charged with an ecstatic tension that propels the gaze to an upward movement to grasp, as Federico Fellini wrote, "the natural gothicity of his language" .