Pippo Oriani

Harlequin musician

oil on canvas - cm 50x70  - cod. PO 10

Pippo Oriani (1909-1972)

Oriani Giuseppe (Pippo said) was born in Turin in 1909. Since his youth he is attracted to drawing and art. After beginning his studies in architecture at the School of Architecture, he approached the painting research, adhering in 1928 to Turin Futurist group of Enrico Prampolini. From 1930 to 1936 he was in Paris where he attended Gino Severini and other "Italian artists in Paris". approaches at Aeropittura.He returned again to Expressionists canons, while starting from the second post-war experienced a pictorial language with  archaic and primitive character  (with "human presence" cycle). He is present with some of his works in various Venice Biennale: 1930, 1932, 1934, 1936, and 1938. Painter of the "Second Futurism" from 1928, thanks to the protection of Prampolini, remained in activity until the second post-war period. In the career of Oriani, curious are his Aeropittura activities, which lasted about a year (1931). After the war took place as an architect and interior designer.He returned to painting in the early 50s of the twentieth century, revisiting his activity of the Paris period and with the creation of a new cycle, that of the "human presence."Famous are his masks (Harlequin, Pucinella, etc.) and still lifes (futurist imprint).Pippo Oriani died in Rome in 1972.