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Giuseppe Capogrossi
Description
- Giuseppe Capogrossi
- Superficie 105
- firmato; iscritto sul retro
- olio su tela
- cm 180x120
- Eseguito nel 1954
Provenance
Collezione Vincenzo Monaco, Roma
Ivi acquisito dall'attuale proprietario
Literature
Condition
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NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF BUSINESS PRINTED IN THE SALE CATALOGUE."
Catalogue Note
Not only the business collaboration that had often seen Architect Vincenzo Monaco and Giuseppe Capogrossi working together, but also the inevitable elective affinities as well as the intellectual fertility that characterized Rome at the time, explicate the strong friendship between these two important figures of the last Century. Architect Vincenzo Monaco completed his studies in the early Thirties, managing to conjugate the Piedmontese culture inherited from his mother with the Classic Renaissance Roman one, keeping constantly in mind the French Avant Guard architecture as well as the new Swiss and American architectural tendencies. Along with Architect Amedeo Luccichenti they opened their firm and started accomplishing many of the most important architectural projects of this country. Their main intent was to create in Italy a new architectural language, and as a result of their innovations the studio steadily increased its fame. After the Second World War their activity was greatly intensified and during this time their attendance to the known bar Rosati in the central Piazza del Popolo allowed Architect Monaco to meet Giuseppe Capogrossi among the many other known artists he encountered at the time. Between the end of the Forties and the end of the Fifties their architecture firm was involved in important private and public projects among which the Finsider Pavilion in Chicago, the SIAE building in Rome, the wolf Room in Montecitorio, the enlargement of the Castelporziano Residence and the restructuring of San Rossore. To these we can add the Villaggio Olimpico, Rome Viaduct, and Fiumicino International Airport. In 1960 they were asked to complete the First Class interior decoration of transatlantic boats such as the Michelangelo and the Leonardo da Vinci. Among the artists involved in this project Giuseppe Capogrossi was asked to execute an oval panel in the Michelangelo’s living room. The friendship between Monaco and Capogrossi strengthened even more and their wives became very close friends. Artists and intellectuals often gathered together to discuss art in Monaco’s beautiful house where in the centre of the living room there was a special fireplace. Among the guests to be remembered there was Palma Bucarelli, Giulio Carlo Argan, Sebastian Matta, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Nino Corpora, Victor Brauner, Christian Zervos, Mimmo Rotella, Leonardo Sinisgalli. This was the city of Rome at the time, a city rich of intellectual and artistic creativity. The MAXXI Museum in 2015 in order to celebrate the importance of the Monaco-Luccichenti Architecture Firm, opened a permanent and free to the public exhibiting room dedicated to the two architects and to Giuseppe Capogrossi.