Emilio Scanavino

(Genova, 1922 - Milano, 1986)

oil painting on canvas. Emilio Scanavino was born in Genoa in 1922 from his father Sebastiano, a theosophist, and from his mother Maria Felicina Sterla, a fervent Catholic. These two cultures will determine the artist's conflicting personality, visible in all his works. In 1950, 1954 and 1955 he participated in the XXV - XXVII - XXVIII Venice Biennale of Art which allowed him to receive the Graziano Prize. The year 1960 marks the career of the Genoese painter, in fact it was he who won the Spoleto Prize, the Sassari Prize, the Valsesia Prize and the Lignano Prize, so much so that he was invited, with his personal exhibition, to the XXX Biennale of Art of Venice. At the beginning the works of Scanavino took on post-cubist characteristics where the forms gradually became stylized until they completely dissolved in the early 1950s. Although Scanavino is an artist difficult to place in a specific current, he can be considered an informal abstractionist, close to abstract expressionism. Showcase frame in silver-plated metal. Measure cm. 60 x 60.