{"product_id":"federico-gismondi-fase-spine","title":"FEDERICO GISMONDI - SPINE PHASE","description":"\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eFederico Gismondi was born in Balsorano (AQ) in 1936. He devoted himself to literature since the 1950s, publishing collections of poems, short stories, and essays from 1961 onwards; he also contributed to newspapers and magazines.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e He is a sculptor, painter, and printmaker, alongside intense cultural activity, organizing art exhibitions, conferences, and civic events. He initiated aesthetic movements such as \"Pan-World Art\" and the \"World Artists for Peace Movement of the Blue Manifesto,\" positioning himself as an egocentric figure who cuts across contemporary culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e He holds solo exhibitions and participates in group exhibitions in many Italian and foreign cities, including: Rome, Milan, Bologna, Venice, Florence, Naples, Bari, Reggio Calabria, Palermo, Catania, Basel, Nuremberg, Dublin, Copenhagen, Barcelona, ​​Mexico City, etc.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e He received awards and recognitions, including the Iraqi President's International Sculpture Prize at the Baghdad Biennial in 1986.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eIn 1993, on the occasion of his sculpture retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in Mexico City, he was awarded the Diploma of Honor for Special Guests by the Preparatory School of the Free University of the same city.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e Federico Gismondi is the author of various public and commemorative works of important events such as “Ciociaria del Giubileo – 2000” 15 bronze medals.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e In 1999, together with Tina San (aka Santa Peruzza), also from Balsorano, and her life companion, a painter of great sensitivity and one of the leading exponents of European “Art Brut,” they created the “Eden Group.” In 1988, together, they had already organized the traveling exhibition “Archetypal and Fable-like Images of the Peasant Universe”; in 1989 “Barbarian Imaginary” and in 1990 “Bifronte.” In 1989, in Nuremberg, together, they signed the note “On the Right to Cultural Ethnicity” and in 1993, in Theothiuacan (Mexico), “Manifesto of the Sun of the Moon.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eFederico Gismondi's work has attracted considerable attention from the Italian and international press. He is featured in encyclopedias, yearbooks, and art catalogs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e Various monographs have been dedicated to his work, including: “Self-Portrait” ed. Carte Segrete, Rome 1975; “The Small Sculpture”, ed. Angelus Novus, l'Aquila 1988; “Mirabilia in Urbe (Cannilla-Gismondi-Romano)” ed. Municipality of Chieti 1990; “Imaginary Barbarian (Federico Gismondi - Tina San)”, ed. Angelus Novus, l'Aquila 1990; “The Fantastic Bestiary of Federico Gismondi”, ed. Museum of Modern Art, Mexico City 1993; “Manifesto of the Sun and the Moon – Mexico Speaks of My Art”, ed. Gli Amici di Gismondi, Alatri 1995; “Federico Gismondi- Great Woods”, ed. University of Cassino, Cassino 1997; “Eden (Federico Gismondi- Tina San)” ed. Civic Museum of Boville Ernica (FR), 1999.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n\u003ch1\u003e Critical – introductory note by the artist\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eFor easier reading, the work should first of all be divided into six fundamental periods:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e 1) 1950s – 1960s: of realist formation\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e 2) mid-sixties: neo-cubism\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e 3) late 1960s: reflection on the fifteenth century\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e 4) Seventies: mechanomorphism of ecological commitment\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e 5) Eighties: anthropomorphism of reinterpretation of the landscape\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e 6) 1990s: panvisualism, i.e. painting or sculpture strongly influenced by history (of images) and multi-artism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e This argument applies more generally to painting. Sculpture sometimes anticipates the problem, staying in the shadows, but the plastic element always predominates, to the point that a critic like Duilio Morosini wrote in the 1970s in the pages of Il Paese, \"Only after seeing his paintings did I realize that Gismondi is first and foremost a sculptor.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eI am an experimenter, gifted, I believe, with a particular curiosity, especially for materials, therefore a true “faber”.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e Ultimately, it is the materials that largely determine the outcome of the work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e I experiment with stone, bronze, wood, and even the very fragile pumice stone. The practice of \"sculpting,\" that is, removing, is particularly congenial to me. And I love moving from monumental to small formats, all the way to microsculpture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e But, upon closer inspection, a common thread runs through all my work, whether pictorial, sculptural, or even literary: the neo-Cubist plot, that is, the decomposition and personal reconstruction of the universe. I love to proceed by assembly, by recovery. For me, the unity of a work of art is the reconnection of a vast cycle of fragments, the reunification of a dismembered body, of a universe in the process of dissolution. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ANNA MARIA MASCI","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56218589004162,"sku":"AMMAS004","price":4000.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0909\/7065\/3058\/files\/GISMONDI-MASCI.jpg?v=1768474585","url":"https:\/\/cjfh11-ee.myshopify.com\/en\/products\/federico-gismondi-fase-spine","provider":"Venderequadri","version":"1.0","type":"link"}