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Longaretti, Trent : LONGARETTI

Monza: Museu Civico Dell’arengario, 1968

1st Edition. Original Green Wrappers. 8vo. 11 pages ; 22 cm. A very scarce exhibition catalog from Trento Longaretti’s 1-man show at the Monza Museo Civic Dell’arengario from November 23rd through December 5th in 1968. Includes a brief introduction from the artist and 9 plates of Longaretti’s work (mostly black and white with one plate in color) . “Trento Longaretti (1916 — Present) is an Italian painter from Treviglio, in the Province of Bergamo in Lombardy. He studied at the Brera Academy in the 1930s, where he was taught by renowned artists including painters Aldo Carpi and Pompeo Borra, and sculptors Francesco Messina and Marino Marini. He says that painting is an ‘elixir for long life’, and continues to paint and exhibit as a centenarian… He was on the fringes of the Corrente movement started by his friends and classmates in the 1930s to oppose the Novecento Italiano movement that was influenced by Italian Fascism. He was drafted by the Italian Army in 1939, completing tours of duty that until 1945 interrupted his artwork though still enabling him to attend several exhibitions, including the Mostra degli artisti in armi exhibit at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome… He became involved in the Italian figurative art movement of the mid 1900s. His growing stature as a painter in Italy led to exhibitions at increasingly prestigious events, such as the Venice Biennale and Rome Quadriennale. It ultimately led to Longaretti earning the ‘Chair of Painting’ and becoming the director of the Accademia Carrara in Bergamo in 1953, a position he held until retiring in 1978…” (Wikipedia, 2017) OCLC lists no copies worldwide. Slight wear to wrappers and very faint toning to inside pages but overall in very good condition. Rare. (ITART-1-44) xx

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