Giulio Turcato

Giulio Turcato (Mantua 1912 - Rome 1995). He studies in Venice at the Art School at the Liceo Artistico and at the Free School of Nude. His first still life and landscape works are from 1926, in 1932 he took part in a first collective exhibition. In 1937 he moved to Milan working as a draftsman with the architect Muzio. In 1940 he exhibited in a group show at the Galleria Grande in Milan. Between 1942 and 1943 he returned to Venice where he taught and participated in the XXIII Biennale. Also in 1943 he moved to Rome and participated in the IV Quadrennial. In 1945 he was among the founders of the Art Club the following year in Warsaw he participated in the Exhibition of Contemporary Italian Art and adhered to the manifesto of the New Italian artistic secession. In 1947 he was one of the founders of the Forma group. In 1948 in Milan with Consagra he invited Dova, Fontana, Munari, Reggiani and others to the Abstract in Italy exhibition in Rome, then exhibited at the XXIV Venice Biennale and at the II SalondesBeauxArts in Paris. With Quasimodo, Ginzburg, De Grada, Fiore, Treccani, and Leoncillo in Warsaw he participated in the Peace Congress in Warsaw. In 1949, among the many exhibitions he took part in the XX Century Italian Art at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and had a solo show at the Galleria del Naviglio in Milan. In 1950 he participates in the Venice Biennale where he gets a prize. In the same year with Afro, Birolli, Corpora, Moreni, Morlotti joined the group of Eight, in 1952 they took part in the Venice Biennale and in a traveling exhibition in Germany. From the mid-1950s he has important personal exhibitions at the Naviglio, Milan at the XXV Venice Biennale; alla Tartaruga, Rome at the XXIX Venice Biennale and at the Skyscraper, Milan. He group shows at the Carniege Institute-Pittsburg, at the Guggenheim International award-New York, Documenta II- Kassel. In 1960 he joined the Continuity group and participated with the group in various exhibitions. The 60s are full of personal exhibitions, in the solo shows of 1961 in London and Venice he shows the first "Tranquillants" and in 1966 he has a new exhibition at the Venice Biennale where he presents the first "Lunar surfaces". From the 70s among the many personal exhibitions we remember that at Shubert-Milan, at Barozzi-Venice and Milan, Martano-Turin, at Segno-Rome, Venice Biennale, Palazzo delle Esposizioni -Rome, Italian Cultural Institute- New York and at the Museum of modern art in Bucharest. In 1980 personal at the Galleria Sprovieri-Rome, in 1981 at Mazzoli-Modena, 1982 Venice Biennale, in 1984 at the PAC-Milan, the following year at the StaatsgalerieModernKunst-Munich and in 1986 at the National Gallery of Modern Art-Rome, in 1989 Sperone-New York, 1990 Cà Pesaro-Venice. In 2012, for the centenary of his birth, the exhibition Giulio Turcato was set up at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Rome. Stellar, an excursus of over twenty years of his artistic production. In 2016 at the Camec of La Spezia the Turcato exhibition “From Poetic Form to Surface Painting”.