Giuseppe Migneco

Fisherman

colored china ink  - cm 21x29 - cod. GM 10

Giuseppe Migneco (1908-1997)

Born in Messina 9 February 1908. After receiving a classical education he moved to Milan in 1931 to study medicine but soon he devotes himself to abandon his studies. In 1934 the turning point in his artistic career by coming into contact with Sassu, Renato Birolli and Raffaele De Grada. In 1937 he was among the founders of the "current" movement that brings together artists from different cultural horizons, with the common aim to open up to modern European culture. In 1939 he participates in the first exhibition of "current" held at the Permanente in Milan. His work is part of "social realism" but it is characterized by the influence of the "Mexican mural painters". In the fifties the reputation, well-established, established him among the contemporary masters of Italian art and exhibited in the most prestigious national and international galleries: Gothenburg, Boston, Paris, Stuttgart, New York, Amsterdam, Hamburg and Zurich. In 1958 he participated in the XXIX Biennale of Art in Venice. His strong and bright colors reminiscent of his native Sicily and the faces of his characters, often fishermen, are tough and brave and expression of a harsh land that dispenses pain and fatigue. Migneco dies in Milan on 28 February 1997.