"Glicine" is a splendid oil on canvas painting by the notable Italian artist Giancarlo Cazzaniga (Monza 1930 - Milan 2013). On the back authoritative stamp and signature to guarantee the authenticity of the historic San Carlo gallery in Milan, which has always been a reference point for the historical European avant-garde of the second '900. Also accompanied by a certificate of authenticity issued by the San Carlo gallery on photos of the work. Excellent price negotiable send your purchase proposal. Work for collectors.
Dimensions with frame cm: H 84 L 73 without frame 60 x 50
Biographical note:
Giancarlo Cazzaniga was born in Monza in 1930.
Since 1950 he attended the Cimabue Academy in Milan and during the 50s he made his debut participating in public and thematic exhibitions.
In the early years after the Second World War he was among the frequenters of the Jamaica bar, a famous meeting place for the artists of the time. Here he came into contact with the artistic current of Existential Realism, born in those years between the bar Jamaica and the Academy of Brera and which saw among its initiators Bepi Romagnoni, Mino Ceretti, Giuseppe Guerreschi, Giuseppe Banchieri and Tino Vaglieri. What these artists had in common in those years was a new way of feeling the figure and the reality of the outside world, as well as the desire to find an alternative way to the informal as well as to social realism.
Cazzaniga joined the group together with Floriano Bodini and Gianfranco Ferroni. With the latter he shared a studio in Via Garibaldi in Milan for a certain period. There some photos were taken of him with his friend and musician Chet Baker and it was during this period that his friendship with two other masters of Italian jazz began: Franco Cerri and Enrico Intra. It is no coincidence that the night world of jazz music was one of the great themes of Cazzaniga's painting.
He held his first solo exhibition in 1957 in Brescia. In 1958 he attended the exhibition "Young Italian Artists" at the Museo della Permanente in Milan and in 1959, also in Milan, he won the San Fedele Prize.
In 1962 he participated in the XXXI biennale in Venice with a selection of works on the theme of jazz music, the Jazz Man. Here he was presented by Mario De Micheli, who described his style in this way: "Cazzaniga is not a painter who loves harshness, dissonance, agitated chromaticism. He particularly relies on the sign: a rapid, dense, allusive sign that composes the image by approximations. Even the spaces in which his players are placed are crossed by lightning signs that excite the writing, making it animated by secret energies. In this way the vague or blind surface of his backgrounds participates in the notes, the rings, the voice of the jazz man, becomes a visible echo".
In 1966 he was again present at the Venice Biennale and in 1965 at the Quadriennale in Rome.
From the moment the season of Existential Realism came to its conclusion, Cazzaniga remained faithful to the same themes and motifs, but faced with infinite variations. There are two subjects that characterize his work from here on: jazz musicians on the one hand, nature and landscapes on the other. In relation to the latter two, Luca Pietro Nicoletti describes his work as "painting in which objects are returned through signs and brushes, far from any descriptivism, looking more for a "feeling" of nature in the tangle of flowers and plants".
Among the many prizes obtained can be mentioned: the Suzzara Prize, the Venice Biennale Engraving Prize, the Fiorino Prize in Venice. His activity is accompanied by an intense bibliography and a long series of personal exhibitions in public venues and private galleries, in Italy and abroad.
He died in Milan on December 5, 2013.
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