Nuvolo (Giorgio Ascani)
Untitled, 1963
Canvas collage and paint on primed canvas
70 by 100 cm (27½ by 39⅜ in.)
52702
$90,000
Executed in 1963. Born Giorgio Ascani, Nuvolo was an Italian painter and pioneer of screenprinting techniques. Raised in Umbria in a family of printers, he participated in the Resistance in...
Executed in 1963.
Born Giorgio Ascani, Nuvolo was an Italian painter and pioneer of screenprinting techniques. Raised in Umbria in a family of printers, he participated in the Resistance in World War II, where he gained his nickname “Nuvolo,” Italian for “cloud”. Following the war, he moved to Rome where, in Alberto Burri’s studio, he began to develop his own artistic practice, under the influence of artists who shared his interest in a progressive departure from the use of the paintbrush toward an engagement with unconventional materials and techniques. In 1955, the poet Emilio Villa organized Nuvolo’s first one-person gallery exhibition. His work was subsequently promoted by some of the most prominent gallerists in Italy, including Peggy Guggenheim, who acquired a number of the artist’s works and bequeathed a selection of them to major U.S. museums. In 1979, Nuvolo became Chair of the Academy of Fine Arts of Perugia, a position he held until 1984. In 2015, his family established the Archivio Nuvolo to safeguard his legacy, and donated some important works to the Pinacoteca Comunale in the artist’s birthplace Città di Castello.
Born Giorgio Ascani, Nuvolo was an Italian painter and pioneer of screenprinting techniques. Raised in Umbria in a family of printers, he participated in the Resistance in World War II, where he gained his nickname “Nuvolo,” Italian for “cloud”. Following the war, he moved to Rome where, in Alberto Burri’s studio, he began to develop his own artistic practice, under the influence of artists who shared his interest in a progressive departure from the use of the paintbrush toward an engagement with unconventional materials and techniques. In 1955, the poet Emilio Villa organized Nuvolo’s first one-person gallery exhibition. His work was subsequently promoted by some of the most prominent gallerists in Italy, including Peggy Guggenheim, who acquired a number of the artist’s works and bequeathed a selection of them to major U.S. museums. In 1979, Nuvolo became Chair of the Academy of Fine Arts of Perugia, a position he held until 1984. In 2015, his family established the Archivio Nuvolo to safeguard his legacy, and donated some important works to the Pinacoteca Comunale in the artist’s birthplace Città di Castello.