Gino Patti (1925–1993) was a surrealist

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of the 20th century; he was of noble heritage and native from Alcamo, in

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Biography

He was born in Alcamo, where he attended the secondary school; he was lazy and undisciplined, because he felt like being in a prison, in spite of that, he wanted to learn what he liked. In high school he started reading books about

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and

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: his favourites were Kant, Croce, Schopenauer,

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and

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; he also read books about

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and liked

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. Gino Patti finished his long studies by graduating in

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at the university of Palermo, then he felt free to do what he wished, so he started reading a lot about

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and began to paint.http://www.trapaninostra.it/libri/Provincia_Regionale_Trapani_PROMO/1957_Rassegna_mensile_della_Provincia/Trapani_Rassegna_mensile_della_Provincia_anno_IV-05.pdf He made an exhibition in Alcamo, more to please his friends, and all his paintings were sold; he took part in the first ''Provincial Exhibition of Figurative Arts of Trapani'' (look at the article written by professor Gianni Di Stefano on the magazine Trapani-anno I, n.4 of 15 August 1956) and in the prize Alcide de Gasperi in 1956. From 1957 onwards he took part in art

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. His works are now in Italian and International galleries and in various private

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s. Luigi Spazzapan, to whom Patti had shown some of his pictures in

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, was immediately struck by Gino Patti’s new style of painting; besides painting, he studied the masters of past in order to learn the secrets of art. In that period he met

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, a professor at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Palermo and a futurist painter who advised him. Pippo Rizzo wrote that ''Patti depicts clouds, beaches, skies, small trees, figures with a child’s loving attention.''. The Sacred Military Constantinian Order, the

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, the ''Associazione Arte a Confronto'' and different sponsors organized an exposition of Patti at the Rubino Hall of Centro Congressi Marconi.

Patti's painting

According to Gino Patti the merit of

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was that of drawing attention on the fact that art is an operation of spirit, so an introspective examination and not a study or interpretation of objective reality.http://www.trapaninostra.it/libri/Provincia_Regionale_Trapani_PROMO/1962-06_Giugno_-_Trapani_Rassegna_mensile_della_Provincia/1962-06_Giugno_-_Trapani_Rassegna_mensile_della_Provincia.pdf

Selected works

* Ritratto della madre, April 1956 * I cipressi di Dioniso, at the Town Hall of Alcamo (March 1956) * Crocefissione, Private Collection Spinelli (May 1956) * Ai confini del sogno, property of the author, (June 1956) * Il dramma del torso, at the Department of Finances of the Sicilian Region (March 1956) * Sinfonia di archi, property of the author, (July 1956) * Sacrificio, property of the Sicilian Regional Assembly (A.R.S.) inside

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in Palermo (February 1956) * Le arpe del tempo, Collection La Roche of New York (1960) * Ritmi di zolfo liquido, property of Società Mineraria Bisi * Stato d’animo 276, (1962) * Sinfonia K24, gallery of modern art of Lissone * Stato d’animo 215 (1962) * Evento ed emozione (1962) * Emozione in blu (1962) * Evento n.101, Collection Avv. Somma) * Angelo trombettiere, chromed, in the Church of Saint Joseph the Worker in Alcamo * Angelo musicante, chromed, in the Church of Saint Joseph the Worker in Alcamo

References

Sources

* * * * Albano Rossi: Gino Patti, Palermo, 1968

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