Abstract figure of Gianni Dova

Artist: Gianni Dova (1925-1991)

Gianni Dova, born in Rome in 1925 but raised in Milan, attended the Brera Art School in 1942 with the intention of then moving on to the Faculty of Architecture of the Polytechnic. But the war changed his plans, he met and frequented the artists who met in the literary cafés and who had, among others, the newspaper published by Ernesto Treccani, Corrente, as their point of reference. Among these Renato Guttuso, Emilio Vedova, Renato Birolli, Ennio Morlotti, Bruno Cassinari, Giuseppe Migneco and together with them he recognized the importance of Pablo Picasso's work, going so far as to join the Realism manifesto "Beyond Guernica" in 1946. In 1947 he also joined the Spazialista Movement with Lucio Fontana and numerous other Italian artists: Dova was among the protagonists of this movement that grew up around Carlo Cardazzo's Galleria del Naviglio and signed several posters. He later joined the nuclear painting movement with Enrico Baj and Sergio Dangelo. Dova has exhibited and achieved great success both in Italy and abroad. Dova died in Pisa on 14 October 1991, leaving his footsteps in graphics, painting, sculpture, ceramics and wall decoration.

Age: Contemporary

Contemporary

Subject: Abstract Composition

Artistic technique: Multiple Print

Technical specification: Lithography