Adriano Spilimbergo Biography
Adriano Spilimbergo was born in Buenos Aires in 1908, always lived in Milan where he studied at the Brera Academy. Initially close to the pictorial realism and monumentalism of the twentieth century, he had his solo exhibition at the first solo exhibition in 1930 at the Galleria Bardi and at the following one, with Lucio Fontana, at the Galleria del Milione in 1931. In fact, in Adriano Spilimbergo's painting those stylistic characteristics that would have led, together with Angelo Del Bon, Umberto Lilloni, Francesco De Rocchi and Cristoforo de Amicis, to form the group of "chiarists". Active protagonist of Milanese artistic life throughout the 1930s with his participation in the Permanente, Brera and Triennale exhibitions and in various editions of the Bergamo Prize, Gold Medal at the Paris International Exhibition of 1937, present in the second post-war period at various editions of the Venice Biennale, the Milan Triennale and the Rome Quadrennial.