Sergio Vacchi, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Italian painter (1925-2016)
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Place of Birth: Castenaso, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
About Sergio Vacchi
- Sergio Vacchi (1 April 1925 – 14 January 2016) was an Italian painter. Born in Castenaso, Bologna, Vacchi abandoned his studies in law to pursue his passion for painting.
- A self-taught artist, in 1951 he held his first solo exhibition in Milan at the prestigious Galleria del Milione.
- After a period close to post-cubism, between 1956 and 1962 he embraced the informalism.In the early 1960s, Vacchi moved to Rome, and there he started a cycle of gouaches and paintings collectively known as Il Concilio (i.e.
- "The Council"), which raised large controversities with the Roman Catholic Church because of their grotesque and sometimes blasphemous representation of the church.
- When in 1964 Vacchi was invited to the Venice Biennale, the patriarch of Venice forbade Catholics to visit his room.
- Following some cues present in Il Concilio, Vacchi embraced a new art movement, known as Nuova Figurazione ("New Figuration"), of which the first significant example was Morte di Federico II di Hohenstaufen.
- In the following years the painting cycles Galileo Galilei semper...
- and Pianeta followed.In the 1990s Vacchi devoted himself to cycles of portraits and self-portraits, and particularly to Greta Garbo's portraits.
- In 1997 he moved to Siena, where he founded the foundation Fondazione Vacchi.
- He stopped painting in the late 2000s, because of the Parkinson's disease that had affected him.
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