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Omaggio a Zarpellon
An exhibition of around twenty paintings preserved in the homes of the eighty-year-old artist's Venetian friends which contain his typical signature: a state of permanent tension that chisels away at the darkness of the human mind to open new breaches and free that beauty that sometimes does not you want to see it or you can't.
Toni Zarpellon
Toni Zarpellon was born in Bassano del Grappa in 1942 and has earned a place among the most influential Italian artists of contemporary art of the second half of the twentieth century.
Having graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice, he taught from 1964 to 1987 at the Istituto d'Arte di Nove and the Istituto d'Arte dei Carmini in Venice and his academic career inspired him to engage with art forms of other nationalities .
From the second half of the sixties to the early eighties, in fact, he made various trips to the most important European cities, frequenting the environments and galleries of avant-garde art and the most important collections of ancient and contemporary art.
All that follows is a multifaceted cultural richness that explodes in countless exhibitions and events, both in Italy and abroad, aimed at analyzing, through the harshness of its pictorial "sign", the darkness of the human mind.
Of particular importance in this research was the experience of May 1993 at the Trento hospital institute in Vicenza, where the artist reflected on the human condition of elderly people by making 50 drawings of human faces.
All the work of this fervent twentieth-century Italian artist is documented in various private and public bodies, and various foundations such as: the A.S.A.C. Historical Archive. of the Venice Biennale; the Ragghianti Foundation of Lucca; the Corrente Foundation of Milan and other cultural institutions in Italy and abroad.