Guido Vedovato (30 June 1961 in
Vicenza
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naïve painter and sculptor.
Vedovato is one of the best-known
Naïve artists. He was born in Vicenza, northern part of Italy. He lives and works in
Camisano Vicentino. He graduated as an economist and had no artist scholar background. Yugoslavian Naïve art had a big effect on his works. It made him to start painting at the end of the 1970s. At the beginning it was one of his hobbies however later it became his passion.
He wants to depict short stories in his paintings. We may have a look at the life of the modern villages in the Italian chains of the
Alps
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. Some of his well-known paints depicts animals in the night, but—as he said, he preferred to paint humans.
Works in collections
* Museum of Naive Art -
Jagodina )
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* Museo Nazionale della Arti Naives „Cesare Zavattini” –
Luzzara
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Italy
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* Musée International d’Art Naive –
Bages
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France
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* Slovenian Naive Art Museum -
Trebnje
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* Museo Internacional de Arte Naif Manuel Moral –
Jaén (
Spain
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* MAN – Musée d’Art Naif -
Béraut (
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* Vihorlatské Osvetové Stredisko -
Homonna (
Slovakia
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* Musée d’Art Naive International Yvon M. Daigle,
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* MIDAN – Musée International d’Art Naive-
Vicq (
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* Museo Civico „Umberto Nobile” e d’Arte Naive –
Lauro (
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* Musée d'Art Spontané,
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Belgium
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* Moscow State Museum of Naive Art –
Moscow
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* Magyar Naiv Művészek Múzeuma -
Kecskemét
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* Gallery of Szombathely -
Szombathely
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Evere
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Municipality Art Collection -
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* Balaton Museum -
Keszthely
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Exhibitions
*2015 - Balaton Museum,
Keszthely
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Hungary
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(solo)
*2014 - National Library of Foreign Literature,
Budapest
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Hungary
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(solo)
*2013 - Gallery of Szombathely,
Szombathely
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Hungary
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(solo)
*2013 - House of Civil Communities - Gebauer Gallery,
Pécs
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Hungary
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(solo)
*2012 - Le Musée d'Art Spontané,
Brussels
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Belgium
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(solo)
*2012 - 16th Colony of naive and marginal art, Museum of Naive Art,
Jagodina )
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Serbia
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*2012 - Museum of Hungarian Naive Artists,
Kecskemét
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Kecskemét lies halfway between the capital Budapest and the country's third ...
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Hungary
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(solo)
*2012 - Újpest Art Gallery,
Budapest
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Hungary
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(solo)
*2008 - Institute of Italian Culture,
Kneza Miloša,
Serbia
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*2008 - Galeria Eboli,
Madrid
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*2008 - The Four Seasons: The Naïve Art of Italy, GINA Gallery of International Naïve Art,
Tel Aviv
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Israel
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*2007 - Moscow State Museum of Naïve Art,
Moscow
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Russia
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*2007 - Rassegna Internazionale Naif Mandria,
Chivasso
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Italy
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*2007 -
Michalovce
Michalovce (; hu, Nagymihály, german: Großmichel, Romani language, Romani: ''Mihalya'', Yiddish language, Yiddish: ''Mikhaylovets'' or ''Mykhaylovyts''; uk, Михайлівці) is a town on the Laborec river in eastern Slovakia. Originally ...
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Slovak Republic
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(solo)
*2007 -
Bardejov
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, Slovak Republic (solo)
*2007 - Piwnice Gallery,
Przemyśl
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Poland
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(solo)
*2006 -
Svidnik, Slovak Republic (solo)
*2006 - Vihorlatske Muzeum,
Humenne, Slovak Republic (solo)
*2006 - International Meeting of Naïve Art,
Verneuil su Avre,
France
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*2006 - Premio Nazionale Naif Cesare Zavattini,
Luzzara
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Luzzara is the birthplace of the composer Maurizio Cazzat ...
, Italy
*2005 - International Meeting of Naïve Artists,
Trebnje
Trebnje (, german: Treffen) is a town in southeastern Slovenia.
Trebnje lies on the Temenica River in the traditional region of Lower Carniola. The area was already settled in Antiquity. The modern settlement developed on the main regional road ...
,
Slovenia
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*2004 - Premio Nazionale Naif Cesare Zavattini,
Luzzara
Luzzara ( Guastallese: ) is a ''comune'' in the province of Reggio Emilia, in Emilia-Romagna, Italy. It is located at the northern end of the province, on the right bank of the river Po.
Luzzara is the birthplace of the composer Maurizio Cazzat ...
, Italy
*2003 - Premio Internazionale Naif Varenna,
Varenna
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Varenna was founded by local fishermen in 769, and ...
, Italy
*2003 - Gaianigo Gallery,
Sovizzo
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History
The first settlements in the area that is now the ...
, Italy (solo)
*2001 - Villa Thiene,
Quinto Vicentino Quinto Vicentino is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Vicenza, Veneto, Italy. It is east of A31.
The town is the birthplace of Urbano Lazzaro, the Italian partisan who identified and arrested Benito Mussolini
Benito Amilcare Andrea M ...
, Italy (solo)
*2000 - Naïve Art Exhibition,
Bagnolo San Vito
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In its territory Etruscan remains have been excavated. The ...
, Italy (solo)
*1995 - Naïve Art Exhibition, Bagnolo San Vito, Italy (solo)
*1992 - Naïve Art Exhibition, Bagnolo San Vito, Italy (solo)
See also
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Naive art
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External links
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*http://www.museumsyndicate.com/artist.php?artist=909
*http://www.visionmagazine.com/archives/1012/1012_Artist.html
Vedovato's painting
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Italian still life painters
Living people
1961 births