Remo Brindisi (1918-1996) - Maternità

Remo Brindisi (Rome, April 25, 1918 – Lido di Spina, July 25, 1996)
"Maternity"
oil on canvas 44x33 cm
with frame 63x53 cm
years 90'
signed

Remo Brindisi (Rome, April 25, 1918 – Lido di Spina, July 25, 1996) was an Italian painter.

Biography
He studied in Penne (PE), at the Mario dei Fiori School of Art, L’Aquila and Rome, later attending the Scuola d’Arte di Urbino.

Throughout his life he undertook many study trips, visiting, among others, Florence, Paris and Venice, and then he moved to live in Milan.

Recognized internationally to the point of becoming one of the most cited and well-known painters of Italian painting of the last century, in Italy there are schools named after him as well as some streets.

Venice - Remo Brindisi (1950) (Casa Museo Francesco Cristina)
His first solo show dates back to 1940 in Florence: the show catalog’s preface was written by Eugenio Montale.[3] Subsequently he held solo exhibitions in Paris, Nice, Milan, Venice, Rome, Cairo and San Paolo do Brasil. However, he remained linked to his Abruzzo where in 1960 he was invited to the 11th edition of the Avezzano Prize – National Exhibition of Figurative Arts in Avezzano, alongside Stefano Cavallo, Gisberto Ceracchini, Vincenzo Ciardo, Eliano Fantuzzi, Carlo Levi, Giovanni Omiccioli, Michele Rosa, Joseph Franz Strachota, Francesco Trombadori, Antonio Vangelli and others.[4]

He served as President of the Triennale di Milano and was awarded the gold medal of Public Instruction of the Republic for cultural merits. He participated, especially between the 1940s and 1950s, in multiple editions of the Venice Biennale and the Rome Quadriennale.

Famous also for figures, faces and landscapes: the "Venezie" (Venices), the "Oppositors", the "Pasturellis", the "Maternities" are the most recurring themes[5]. He painted socially and politically themed works, including the cycle Storia del Fascismo (1957-62). He created the symbols carried in procession on Holy Friday in L’Aquila.

In the Art Collections of the Fondazione Cariplo there are four of his paintings: Tre profili, Profili, Venezia and another Venezia. A large collection of his paintings is located at the National Museum of Abruzzo in L’Aquila. Another Brindisi art collection is exhibited at the MAMeC - Museo d’arte moderna e contemporanea di Penne. In Lido di Spina the Remo Brindisi Museum commemorates his work and the exchanges the master had with artists of his era.