Alberto sughi biography

Alberto Sughi

Alberto Sughi

Alberto Sughi, Self portrait, 1974, Oil on canvas, 50x70cm

Alberto Sughi

Alberto Sughi was born in Cesena on 5 October, 1928. His artistic development is almost always expressed in thematic cycles, resembling cinematographic sequences. Firstly, the so-called green paintings, dedicated to the relationship between man and nature (1971-1973). Then La cena (1975-1976) and, at the beginning of the 1980s, the twenty paintings and fifteen studies of the Immaginazione e memoria della famiglia. From 1985 he produced the series La sera o della riflessione. From the year 2000 he created the Notturno cycle.
After classical studies, and artistically self-taught, he learnt the rudiments of his art from his uncle. Sughi first exhibited in a collective exhibition in Cesena in 1946 and, in the same year, he spent a period of time in Turin, where he worked as an illustrator for the newspaper Gazzetta del Popolo. Between 1948 and 1951 he worked in Rome, where he met various artists, among whom Marcello Muccini and Renzo Vespignani from the Gruppo di Por

Alberto Sughi

Italian painter (1928–2012)

Alberto Sughi (October 5, 1928 – March 31, 2012) was an Italian painter.[1]

Biography

Sughi was born in Cesena, Italy.

A self-taught painter, by the end of his formative years he had become one of the greatest Italian artists of his generation. He started painting in the early 1950s, choosing realism in the debate between abstract and figurative art in the immediate post-war period. Even from his early works, however, Sughi’s paintings have avoided any attempt at social moralising. They depict moments from daily life with no heroes, allowing Enrico Crispolti, in 1956, to define his work as "existential realism". His artistic expression proceeds, almost always, in thematic cycles, in the manner of film sequences. First of all, there were his so-called "green paintings", devoted to the relationship between man and nature (1971–1973), then the Supper cycle (1975–1976), after that the 20 paintings and fifteen studies of Imagination and Memory of the Family, dating from the early 1980s; the series Evenin

Teatro d'Italia (Theatre of Italy) is the title of a large painting by Alberto Sughi, made in 1983-84, which is now owned by the Cassa di Risparmio bank in Cesena. It is regarded as a work of fundamental importance in the career of the painter from Cesena..
Alberto Sughi does not usually make preparatory sketches or structural drawings for his paintings. He works directly on the canvas, making corrections, erasing and modifying his work to obtain the result he had envisaged.
It is therefore easy to understand the importance of a photographic record, which, on this occasion, the painter had the foresight to make while the work was progressing, and to preserve for posterity.
These are lost images recovered, precious documentation of the artist's work and the development of the different phases, with all the modifications that the painter regarded as essential to create a precise sense of rhythm and balance.
The painting also offers us an opportunity to try to reconstruct Sughi's whole intellectual and artistic "career", through this interview, which can be con

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