Luigi Malice (born 1937,
Naples
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, Italy) is an
Italian
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abstract artist
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Western art had been, from the Renaissance up to the middle of the 19th ...
.
Malice studied at
Naples Academy of Fine Arts as a pupil of
Emilio Notte, later studying under
avant-garde
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and ''Informal Art'' painter
Domenico Spinosa
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.
He began as an
expressionist
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and
figurative painter in the late 1950s, his then style demonstrated by his painting "Still life with figure" for which he received the ''Michetti Prize'', and "Ricordo di Spagna" ("Memory of Spain") which Malice exhibited for the ''Posillipo Prize''.
In the early 60's, he approached the ''
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'', an Italian art movement close to the American
Abstract expressionism
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and to the French
Art Informel
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or
Tachisme
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.
In 1963, Malice became a teacher in
Reggio Calabria
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, where he exhibited in collective and
one-man show
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s, and in 1967 exhibited at the Flaccovio Gallery in
Palermo
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and the Santo Stefano Gallery in
Venice
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.
After 1968, he concentrated on sculpture, and works consisting of waterproof cloth ("tela ciriè") on twisted
plywood
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, imitating
shaped canvas
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es, these related to the work of his contemporaries
Enrico Castellani
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,
Agostino Bonalumi, and
Pino Pascali
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Mario Ceroli
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, and in the early 1970s constructed works with ready-made
Plexiglas
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panels.
Malice exhibited in 1968 at the
New York Coliseum
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, and in 1984, held a
retrospective
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exhibition in
Milan
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. Subsequently, his art took on
abstract impressionism
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and ''lyrism'' of the colours. The same year he became the principal of the Academy of Fine Arts,
Reggio, Calabria. Malice exhibited at the Institute Francais "Le Grenoble" in Naples, and in a travelling exhibition that included Venice and
Florence
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. In 1992, he presented a one-man show, "Percorsi 1965–1992" ("Itineraries 1965–1992"), at the
Royal Palace
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* Imperial Palace- Massa ...
,
Naples
Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's adminis ...
. Since 2001, his work "Metamorphosis 1979" has been held in the ''
Museo delle generazioni italiane'',
Pieve di Cento
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History
The origins of the town date back to the upper m ...
.
Recently the artist has exhibitedhis work at the Italian pavilion of the 54th
Venice Biennale
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.
[Sgarbi, Vittorio. "54a Biennale di Venezia. Padiglione Italia. Lo Stato dell’Arte: Regioni d’Italia", Milano: Skira, 2012,
.]
References
Further reading
* ''Enciclopedia Universale della Pittura moderna'', Milano: S.E.D.A., 1969
* ''Arte Italiana Contemporanea'', Firenze: Ediz. La Ginestra, 1972
* Barbera, Lucio. ''Luigi Malice: percorsi della memoria 1959–1999'', Roma: Gangemi Editore, 1999, (Italian/English
* Di Genova, Giorgio. ''MAGI '900 "G.BARGELLINI" PIEVE DI CENTO". Catalogo delle collezioni permanenti 3. Generazione anni trenta'', Bologna: Edizioni BORA, 2001,
* Sgarbi, Vittorio. "54a Biennale di Venezia. Padiglione Italia. Lo Stato dell’Arte: Regioni d’Italia", Milano: Skira, 2012,
External links
Luigi Malice web site biography
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Italian contemporary artists
Art Informel and Tachisme painters
20th-century Italian painters
Italian male painters
20th-century Italian sculptors
20th-century Italian male artists
Italian male sculptors
21st-century Italian sculptors
1937 births
Living people
21st-century Italian male artists