Eugenio Carmi, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Italian painter (1920-2016)
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Place of Birth: Genoa, Liguria, Italy
About Eugenio Carmi
- Eugenio Carmi (17 February 1920 – 16 February 2016) was an Italian painter and sculptor.
- He is considered to have been one of the main exponents of abstractionism in Italy.Born in Genoa, in 1938 Carmi moved to Switzerland because of the racial laws imposed by Benito Mussolini.
- He graduated in Chemistry at the ETH Zurich.
- Carmi returned to Italy after the war, where he studied painting with Felice Casorati and sculpture with Guido Galletti.In the early 1950s, Carmi abandoned the informal style and adopted a geometric rigor in his works.
- His works often used factory materials such as welded steel and iron.Between 1958 and 1965 Carmi collaborated with the steel company Italsider (later Ilva) as their responsible for the image.
- In 1963 he founded with Flavio Costantini and Emanuele Luzzati the cooperative of artists Galleria del Deposito.
- A close friend of Umberto Eco, he collaborated with him on several projects.
- He also taught in several academies.
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