Background
Gustavo Foppiani was born on July 12, 1925, in Udine, Italy. He was the second of three children.
When he was a five-year-old boy, his family relocated to Piacenza.
Gustavo Foppiani was born on July 12, 1925, in Udine, Italy. He was the second of three children.
When he was a five-year-old boy, his family relocated to Piacenza.
Gustavo Foppiani started his artistic training after the Second World War when he entered Gazzola Art Institute in 1946. Gustavo had studied there for three years.
Then, Foppiani pursued his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Milan.
Gustavo Foppiani started with his first exhibition in 1955 at the Galleria L'Obelisco. The true popularity and attention from art critics came to the artist after he had demonstrated his works in New York, at the World House Gallery in 1959.
Since then, Foppiani participated at many prestigious shows among which were the VII and the VIII Quadrennial in Rome, as well as exhibitions organized by Galleria L'Obelisco in Italy, United States and Sweden.
The collaboration with L'Obelisco ended up in 1969 when Foppiani joined the Galleria Forni in Bologna which organized several solo shows of the artist, including his personal exhibition in 1979. The same year, Foppiani also became a member of the Guimiot Gallery in Brussels.
Among the principal exhibitions during Foppiani’s career were the series of shows at Carnegie Museum of Art (Carnegie International of 1955, 1958, 1964 and 1967).
Angelo Catino in Divisa D’Uffiziale
Nordic landscape
Man with Hat and Horn
Urban landscape
Knight falling
Figure
L'Angelo Cattivo Suona alla tua Sinistra
Beneficial influence of the stars on the city
The lost letter
Lamps
Angelo Cattivo Chesuona
Black sun on the path of a fight
The black moon
Mother's Pride
What you see during the day
Madonna with a child
Composition
City
Christmas Night
Anonymous letters
Laughing Figures
Traces of the new city
Playing Figure
Man with a cart
Un Posto per Piantare la Tenda
Black moon above the city's route
Figure and masks at the table
Portrait of Paola
Upside down umbrellas and little eating girl
Figure with a Fan
The central subjects of Gustavo Foppiani's artworks were the issues related to dangerous situations of the dark atmosphere, the anatomic deformation, for example.
Through his creations, the artist tried to show human’s uncertainty.