1982 Original Cremonini Exhibition Poster, Galleria Capricorno - Cremonini

1982 Original Cremonini Exhibition Poster, Galleria Capricorno - Cremonini

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Date: 1982
Size:  19 x 31 inches
Notes: Poster, Unlined
Artist: Cremonini, Walter (after)

About the poster: This poster was created for an exhibition of works by Italian artist Walter Cremonini held at Bormio's Galleria Capricorno in 1982. The poster's edges are a little worn but the piece is in overall good condition and would look wonderful framed.

About the artist : "Born in Milan in 1924, Walter Cremonini, began to draw from his earliest childhood. He painted animals, farmers, landscapes, with passion.He attended the Sculpture Course at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts.

At the age of fourteen, he won a competition for young artists with a bas-relief in which we can already recognize the characteristics of elegance and craftsmanship typical of his work. Later, a student yet, he won the National Sculpture Award for youngsters between eighteen and twenty-eight years old: this was a great day for the young sculptor, but the war destroyed his dreams: he was called to arms, but, as he refused to fight alongside the Nazi Army, he was sentenced to deportation. After an incredible escape from a moving train, he was sentenced to death. He saved his life hiding for about a year in a small apartment, almost a prison, until April 25, 1945.
He had seen many friends die, he had risked himself to die for the ambition and the folly of a few. The nightmare of this persecution, his hatred for the abuses of power, his desire for freedom will always be in his work.  After the war he started working for various prestigious publishers, such as Fratelli Fabbri, Carroccio, Giuseppe Rizzi and others, specialized in books for children. Meanwhile, he again started mingling with the artistic world of Milan.
In his beautiful studio in Piazzale Istria, on the fourth floor, where the wide windows swept over the trees of the square, giving a breath of green and an illusory contact with nature, he worked with alacrity, dedicating himself to paintings and etchings.
Although he had many friends among artists, songwriters, actors, and poets, he worked alone, closed in his world with his extraordinary characters: the overpowering Kings, Generals, devious Harlequins, scarecrows, monuments to useless monstrous beings inflated from nothing
Refined etcher, he founded with some friends the “Centro dell'Incisione Alzaia Naviglio Grande“.The art of etching adapts well to the magic of his lines, clean and elegant, impossible to imitate.
In those years Cremonini had many exhibitions in major galleries in Milan, as the “Permanente“; he was invited to Graz (the Styrian Festival), Vienna, Berlin and Geneva. He also was invited to the International Exhibition of Graphic Arts in Ljubljana and received several awards.
In the mid-80s, he lived a brief parenthesis in Rome, with his friend, the sculptor Fontanella, and was finally able to dedicate himself to sculpture, attending the Anselmi's foundry. He went back home with a refrigerated box (it was summer) containing the waxes for the “Faun victorious” and the “Passage of a mask”, which became bronze statues during a subsequent trip to Rome, and of which only one copy exists.
A few years after he created the “Cavallo di Troia“ (The Trojan Horse) in bronze and silver. In the year 2003, his friend and collector Gerosa dedicated for this sculpture, (with many drawings and etchings), an exhibition in the halls of the ancient Palais Beauharnais in the town of Pusiano.
the artistic world with its compromises, ended up by tiring the free temperament of Cremonini. Gradually he withdrew from such an environment. He left Milan and moved to Canzo, in Brianza.
He reorganized his studio in an ancient aristocratic house, he installed his trusty press, he rearranged his cultured library.
In those years cultural opportunities lead to his discovery of Sicily, land of mystery that captivated him with its ambiguity and its enormous culture. The owner of the touristic village of Kartibubbo, Capo Granitolo, was a very sensitive patron, promoter of an interesting cultural initiative for the Italian artists. For this village he painted a large fresco.
For his town as well, in the green Brianza, he produces some frescoes that remain as witness of his openness and capability to be popular giving up useless intellectualism, such as the “Miracle of the sleeping carter” in a small chapel on the Segrino Lake, or the “St. Miro's miracle of the rain” in Canzo, on Mornerino Street.
He also participated to many country fairs, including a very beautiful one in Florence, where ancient crafts were presented. With artisans friends from Brianza he gave a public demonstration of his manual press, explaining how it worked.
Thanks to a passionate young student of his works, who chose for her thesis "Cremonini incisore" (Cremonini the etcher), he had to make order in the history of his work. and this has been a great help to the unfulfilled effort to reconstruct his memory as a man and as an artist.
His is a never ending story that never ceases to surprise us with continuous discoveries of extraordinary drawings, pondered writings, serene and deep thoughts among his papers.
I will end with what a friend and critic Vigorelli wrote several years ago: “This sweet, generous, unique artist has discovered a special secret: that of being loved" (Source : waltercremonini.it)