Background
Enrico Accatino was born in the city of Genova in 1920 into a farming family.
Enrico Accatino was born in the city of Genova in 1920 into a farming family.
He studied drawing in Turin from 1938 to 1940 with Felice Casorati. At the end of the war, graduated from the Rome Fine Arts Academy, he moved to Paris, where he mixed with artists such as Matisse, Severini, Giacometti, and Manessier.
He was awarded a gold medal by the President of the Italian Republic for "Benemerito della Scuola, della Cultura e dell"Arte". Mobilized in the declaration of war, Accatino was assigned to an artillery regiment at Manduria, in southern Italy. Aniconic paintings and collages were created in the second half of the 1950s, when he started to investigate circularity (circles, disks, ellipses) and Arte Informale style.
From 1966 Accatino was intensely dedicated to the re-launching of textile arts as language, creating biand tri-dimensional solutions such his double faced diaphragm tapestries (plastic elements suspended in space).
He created a prolific amount of graphic work with abstract motifs. From 1960 to 1964 he was responsible for the planning of a new method of teaching art, through hundreds of television transmissions (Radiotelevisione Italiana - Radio Televisione Italiana).
He also published important texts on Visual Arts and the History of Artist He died in 2007 in Rome.