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Giuseppe Guerreschi (Milan 1929 - Nice 1985) began his artistic training at the Brera Academy. He studied with Aldo Carpi and held his first personal exhibition in 1953. Read the full biography

Giuseppe Guerreschi (Milan 1929 - Nice 1985) began his artistic training at the Brera Academy. He studied with Aldo Carpi and held his first personal exhibition in 1953. Guerreschi, together with Giuseppe Banchieri, Floriano Bodini, Mino Ceretti, Gianfranco Ferroni, Bepi Romagnoni, Tino Vaglieri, was one of the main exponents of the "Existential Realism" group, and among the most lucid of the "New Figuration". His realism of denunciation is expressed in a cold and detached transcription of the human figure, object or fragment. Guerreschi's painting acquires a dramatic charge, which pushes him to constant examination, where he captures the multiple aspects of life, as well as the lacerations and contradictions of man and everyday objects. In his works the artist appropriates of life, scrutinizing it, observing it and returning it warm and pulsating through his paintings. Of his work we remember the "Jewish period", the "women", the "portraits", the "Vietnam suite" and the journey around the "fantasy world of Fussli". He was invited to the Venice Biennial of 1958 and with personal rooms in 1960, 1964 and 1972, to the Roman Quadrennial of 1959, to the Sao Paulo Biennial of Brazil in 1961. Guerreschi dedicated himself with passion to graphic work, printing many etchings and taking care of folders and book illustrations. Invited to all the major national and foreign painting and engraving exhibitions, Guerreschi achieves very high results with sequences of famous plates through engraving.