Background
He was born in Buenos Aires on April 14, 1894 and died in that same city on May 8, 1976. After the death of his father, Badi returned to Italy in 1921, where he toured Europe with his friend Butler.
He was born in Buenos Aires on April 14, 1894 and died in that same city on May 8, 1976. After the death of his father, Badi returned to Italy in 1921, where he toured Europe with his friend Butler.
Badi studied in Italy and Argentina. He spent his childhood in Milan (Italy) and studied at the Regio Collegio Tomasseo school where he earned a Technical License in 1909. That same year, at age 15, he returned to Buenos Aires to study at the National Academy of Fine Arts.
Here he became a close friend of the painters Horace Butler and Héctor Basaldúa.
He continued his studies in Paris at the Julian Academy and Le Fauconier hop. Over the next years of his radical life he lived in the towns of Sanary-Sur-Mer and Cagnes, France, where he met up with Raquel Forner, Alfredo Bigatti, Pedro Dominguez Neira, Alberto Moravia and Leopoldo Marechal. That year he was also involved in the Salon des Indépendants in Paris.
In the 1930s Badi took up residence in Milan and Paris where he was an active participant in the "Paris Group", along with Hector Basaldua, Antonio Berni, Horace Butler, Lino East. Spilimbergo and Juan Delegate Prete.
During the course of World World War II he lived in Milan and worked closely on illustrations of books and magazines like The Lettura, the monthly magazine Nuevo Corriere della Sera and with Martedì, a literary conference by the Bonpiani Publishing House. In 1936, he settled permanently in Buenos Aires and opened the Atelier Libre of Contemporary Art on Corrientes Street in 1309, along with Horacio Butler.
Within days his work Louisiana plaza was lauded by Gilles de la Tourette in the newspaper Louisiana Nación. In 1937 he began to head the newly formed Argentina Society of Plastic Artists (SAAP).
He also travelled to Paris to the Paris International Exhibition making decorative panels with Lino Enea Spilimbergo.
In this important exhibition he was distinguished, along with other artists from Argentina, with a Gold Meda
Also that year he won the Watercolourist sectional prize awarded by the National Commission on Fine Arts. He achieved another distinction in the Second National Exhibition of decorative artists and the First Prize for Mural Painting from the National Commission on Culture. With his work "El hombre verde" he got the Martin Rodriguez Galisteo Acquisition Prize at the XIII Annual Santa Fe Exhibition.
