Claudio Trevi Biography
Claudio Trevi (whose real surname was Trevisan) is an Italian sculptor born in Padua in 1928 and died in 1987.
Starting in 1940 and for three years, he attended the art school of Ortisei thanks to a scholarship. In the 1940s and 1950s, Trevi's production focused, first, on religious subjects and portraits, and then on statuettes of acrobats, jugglers and mourners, which quickly made him known. At the age of just twenty, he was entrusted with the task of creating the "Partisan Monument" in Bolzano. His style does not belong to the Informal or Realism dominant at the time, but rather follows an expressionist path inspired by the tragic moments of the contemporary age, such as the Holocaust, Vietnam and the Friuli earthquake.
Among the favorite themes, in the sixties and seventies, we remember many "Maternities", the "Embracing", the "Horses" of the Palio of Siena, the cycle of "Leda and the Swan" and the "Kisses". Among his monumental works, there are the bas-relief for the Post Office building in Cortina d'Ampezzo in 1955 and the Maternity for the gynecological clinic of the University of Padua in 1959. In 1956 he participated in the Venice Biennale with a “Maternity” . He was the only sculptor present at the "Visage d'Italie" exhibition organized in 1982 by Olivetti in Paris at the Galeries Lafayette. An anthological exhibition of his was hosted at the Castelvecchio Museum in Verona (1979-80).
