Oil on plywood with frame, 800 x600 mm. Signature on the right lower. Handwritten title, date and dedication on verso. Nice condition.
Aldo Andreolo was born in Venice. His painting, always conducted on the edge of a recognizable figurative matrix, is identified with a very personal and now well-known iconography, in which his enigmatic female figures stand out in perpetual waiting, absorbed in long meditations or intent on scanning the horizon.
A pupil of Giuseppe Cesetti at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice, he graduated in painting in 1949. In the same year he won the Angiola Prize in the Youth Competition and was invited to the Review of contemporary Italian painting at the Correr Museum in Venice, where his works appear alongside those of Boccioni, Carrà, De Chirico, Modigliani, Morandi, Sironi and other masters of Italian painting of the '900. At the end of the fifties Andreolo arrives at an expressionistic-gestural painting, strongly material, Nature morte, Tetti di Venezia. Towards the end of the sixties his painting, having abandoned the dense and noisy colors of the previous period, settles on positions that lean towards a sort of “magical realism”, imbued with metaphysical suggestions. This is how the cycles of abandoned cars and newsstands were born, followed by Beaches and Waits.
The Venetian artist has participated in hundreds of exhibitions around the world. In addition to Italy, he has exhibited in London, New York, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Paris, Geneva, Basel, Munich, Mannheim, Lübeck, The Hague, Brussels, Vienna. His works appear in important private and public collections, including the Ca 'Pesaro museum in Venice.