Michele Guerrisi (23 February 1893 – 29 April 1963) was an Italian sculptor, painter and writer.[1]
Biography
At an early age, Michele Guerrisi moved to Palmi, where he attended the gymnasium and simultaneously practiced in the studio of the painter Domenico Augimeri. He subsequently attended high school Galileo Galilei in Florence.[2]
In 1926, during the IV Biennial of Calabrian Art, Guerrisi noticed the works of Andrea Cefaly junior and decided to take the young artist with him to Turin, at the Albertina Academy of Fine Arts, starting his career.[10][11]
In 1943, he was a founding member, together with Adriano Sicbaldi (his teaching colleague), Ermanno Politi and the sculptor Renzo Moscatelli, of the so-called Cherasco Group.[12]
He was also a painter and writer,[13] author of some books of history and art criticism, of an autobiography, useful to trace the iter of his artistic formation. He published a history of Cinquefrondi, and authored some books on history and art criticism.[citation needed]
The Gipsoteca Michele Guerrisi of Palmi holds a number of his works, mostly maquettes in plaster, and some watercolours donated by his wife.[14][15][16][17]
He died on 29 April 1963 in Rome. Some of his work was shown during the ninth Quadriennale di Roma in 1965–1966.[2]
Expositions
Guerrisi was present at the Venice Biennial of 1934[18] and 1936[19] (with his sculptures: Figura femminile inginocchiata[20] and Donna negra, with which he was awarded[21]).
In 1937, he exhibited a portrait of Gloria Alcorta at the Exhibition of Italian Art from 1800 to the present day held in Berlin.[22]
Between 1931 and 1956 he participated in the first seven editions of the Quadrennial of Rome;[23] At the IX Quadrennial (1965), two years after his death, a retrospective exhibition was dedicated to him.[24] He also participated in 1953 in the collective exhibition Art in the life of Southern Italy at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome.[25]
Monuments
He was the author of public monuments such as:
Mausoleo di Francesco Cilea[26]
Monumento agli studenti caduti per l'Università, Naples, 1923
Monumento ai caduti, Cittanova, 1924
Monumento ai caduti della Ia Guerra Mondiale, Siderno, 1924
The Galleria civica d'arte moderna e contemporanea of Turin possesses the work Swimmer, exposed to the Venetian Biennial of 1934. A Portrait of Italo Cremona exhibited at the next edition (1936) was instead purchased by the Gallery of Modern Art of Milan.[19]
Dalle botteghe agli studi, Torino: Le Arti Belle, 1926
Discorsi su la scultura, Torino: L'Erma, 1930
Il Giudizio di Michelangelo, Rome: AVE, 1947
L'idea figurativa, Milan: Mondadori
L'errore di Cèzanne, Pisa: Nistri/Lischi, 1954.
Acknowledgments
Michele Guerrisi has been entitled the Gipsoteca of Palmi,[28][29] which houses plaster casts of his works and several watercolors offered by his wife,[30] the Scientific High School of Cittanova, the Artistic High School of Palmi[31] and the Technical Institute for Surveyors and Social Activities of Reggio Calabria Righi-Guerrisi. In addition, a square in Cittanova and two streets in Palmi and Cinquefrondi were named after him.
References
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^Campisani, Ugo (2005). Artisti calabresi: Otto-Novecento : pittori, scultori, storia, opere (in Italian). L. Pellegrini. ISBN 978-88-8101-251-0. OCLC 75714503.
^ a b c dMaria Viveros (2003). Guerrisi, Michele (in Italian). Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, volume 60. Roma: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. Accessed November 2021.
^"La statua di sant'antonio di Guerrisi".
^Lucio Rodinò (26 August 2011). "Cittanova: L'arte di Lucifaro invaderà la Provincia". InquietoNotizie.
^"Torino 1929, con l'opera la Madre".
^"Foto". Comune di San Giuliano del Sannio. Archived from the original on 28 January 2015. Retrieved 4 November 2021.
^"Il monumento ai caduti del 1930 di Luzzara". 1 November 2010.
^"Il monumento di Luzzara".
^"Monumenti di Calabria ai caduti della Grande Guerra". Centro Cultura e Arte 26. 6 July 2014.
^"Andrea Alfano". Apparati bio-bibliografici. Museo d'Arte MAON.
^"Francesco Silvestri". Leonardo Basile.
^"Adriano Sicbaldi e il Gruppo di Cherasco". Archived from the original on 6 October 2014. Retrieved 4 November 2021.
^"Personaggi illustri di Reggio Calabria".
^""I luoghi della cultura"". Ministero per i Beni e la Attività Culturali. Archived from the original on 23 September 2015. Retrieved 4 November 2021.
^"Statua della "Filosofia"". Archived from the original on 28 January 2015. Retrieved 4 November 2021.
^ a b"Storia e descrizione della gipsoteca "Michele Guerrisi"". Comune di Palmi.
^Polistena Michele Guerrisi. "Deposizione". Foto archivio Amici Casa della Cultura. Archived from the original on 29 October 2014. Retrieved 4 November 2021.
^"Galleria il triangolo Cosenza".
^ a bLuciano Caramel e Carlo Pirovano (1974). Galleria d'arte moderna. Opere del '900. Electa. p. 41, tav. 625.
^"Guerrisi Michele – sec. XX – Figura femminile inginocchiata 1936". Università di Bologna.
^"Michele Guerrisi". Università di Bologna.
^Austellung Italianischer Kunst von 1800 bis zur Gegenwart. Berlino. 1937. p. 59.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
^"Michele Guerrisi". Quadriennale di Roma.
^"IX Quadriennale Nazionale d'Arte di Roma". Quadriennale di Roma.
^"L'arte nella vita del Mezzogiorno d'Italia". Quadriennale di Roma.
^"Scheda Guerrisi Michele, Orfeo ed Euridice, Orfeo". Università di Bologna, Fondazione Federico Zeri. Archived from the original on 15 October 2014. Retrieved 11 October 2014.
^"Gipsoteca Guerrisi: in Calabria musica e scultura si rivelano". 13 January 2016.
^Michele Guerrisi (1893–1963) e la Gipsoteca Guerrisi
^"Notizie sulla gipsoteca "M. Guerrisi"". Comune di Palmi.
^"Articolo sul Liceo artistico Guerrisi". Archived from the original on 19 October 2013.
Further reading
Walter Canavesio, Uno scultore calabrese nella Torino degli anni Trenta: Michele Guerrisi, in Studi piemontesi, n. 1, 2006, 51–64.
Enzo Le Pera (2008). Enciclopedia dell'arte di Calabria, Ottocento e Novecento. Soveria Mannelli: Rubbettino. pp. 216–219. ISBN 978-88-498-2028-7.
Alfonso Panzetta (2003). Nuovo dizionario degli scultori italiani dell'Ottocento e del primo Novecento. Da Antonio Canova ad Arturo Martini. Vol. 1 (A–L). Torino: AdArte. p. 448. ISBN 88-89082-00-3.