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Pietro Cascella (February 2, 1921 – May 18, 2008) was an Italian
sculptor
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. His principal work consisted of
large monumental sculptures, including the ''
International Monument to the Victims of Fascism'' in the
Auschwitz II-Birkenau
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death camp in Poland (1957–1967), and an underground
mausoleum
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for
Silvio Berlusconi
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at his villa in
Arcore in the 1980s.
Life
Cascella was born into a family of artists in
Pescara
Pescara (; nap, label= Abruzzese, Pescàrë; nap, label= Pescarese, Piscàrë) is the capital city of the Province of Pescara, in the Abruzzo region of Italy. It is the most populated city in Abruzzo, with 119,217 (2018) residents (and approxim ...
on February 2, 1921. His father was
Tommaso Cascella, a painter and ceramicist, and his mother was Susanna Federman. His elder brother was a sculptor. Two of his uncles were also artists, the painter
Michele Cascella and painter and ceramicist
Gioacchino Cascella, as was his grandfather, the painter, ceramicist, and lithographer
Basilio Cascella
Basilio Cascella (Pescara, 1 October 1860 - Rome, 24 July 1950) was an Italian artist, active from the late nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century.
Biography
In 1860, Cascella was born to Francesco Paolo Cascella, a tailor, and his wi ...
. In 1945 he married
Anna Maria Cesarini Sforza, an artist. From 1977 he lived with his second wife, , in the mediaeval in the comune of
Fivizzano
Fivizzano is a ''comune'' in the province of Massa and Carrara, Tuscany, central Italy.
History
It became part of the Republic of Florence in the 15th century thus gaining the Tuscan republic an important foothold in Lunigiana, a key region whi ...
, above
Carrara
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. He died in
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in 2008.
Work
In the late 1930s he moved to Rome and studied at the
Accademia di Belle Arti
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Accademie di Belle Arti
The offic ...
under
Ferruccio Ferrazzi
Ferruccio Ferrazzi (15 March 1891 – 8 December 1978 in Rome) was an Italian painter and sculptor, as well as a professor at Accademia di Belle Arti of Rome.)
Life
Born in Rome, Ferrazzi was the eldest son of the sculptor Stanislao Ferrazzi. In ...
, who taught both painting and sculpture. He had work in the
Quadriennale di Roma
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Its name derives from the four-yearly exhibitions it is required to host by ...
painting exhibition of 1943, and in the twenty-fourth
Biennale di Venezia
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in 1948. He also participated in the 1957 Biennale almost ten years later.
In the years after the
Second World War
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Cascella, with his brother Andrea and various friends, worked in ceramics and mosaic in a brick-works in the , the brick-making district of Rome. In about 1949 he and his wife Cesarini Sforza were commissioned to create mosaics for the third-class waiting-room of the
Stazione Termini, the principal railway station of Rome. In 1950, the two completed a large mosaic for a Roman cinema, the ''
Cinema America''. At about this time he also made small-scale reliefs in various materials, some of them drawing inspiration from the work of
Matta, who was a friend.
In 1950–53, Cascella's ceramic work was included in the large American exhibition ''Italy at Work: Her Renaissance in Design Today''.
In 1962, his work was exhibited at the
Galleria dell’Obelisco (Rome) in an exhibition of ceramics from that year. Also that year, he had a solo show at the
Galleria del Milione (Milan). In 1965, he traveled to New York for a show organized by the
Galleria Bonino. The following year, and again in 1972, he had a room at the Biennale. In 1968, his work was presented at the
Galèrie du Dragon (Paris) and the
Musée d’Ixelles (Bruxelles). In 1971, Cascella participated in the XXIII ''Salon de la Jeune Sculpture'' in Paris.
In April 2006, Pietro Cascella was given the
Medal of Merit for Culture and Art.
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1921 births
2008 deaths
People from Pescara
20th-century Italian painters
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21st-century Italian painters
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