Artifacts
9362 Toni. Antonio Ligabue
Antonio Ligabue raccontato da Cesare Zavattini e Marzo Dall'Acqua
Texts by Cesare Zavattini, Marzio Dall’Acqua. Introduction by Augusto Agosta Tota
2000 / 172 PAGES.
Language: italian/english/french
The great artist Antonio Ligabue is recounted in this volume by Cesare Zavattini and Marzio Dall’Acqua, who describe the image of a tragic and tormented painter who, with his poetic drive and vibrant lines, produced some of the most extraordinary artistic creations in the history of 20th-century Italian art.
In 1967 Franco Maria Ricci published, as the second book in his series Signs of Man, the first major publication dedicated to Antonio Ligabue, inviting Cesare Zavattini to collaborate. For the occasion Zavattini composed a ballad, included in the book, that traces the entire existence of a ‘humanly tragic figure‘. In this new work, stemming from the collaboration with Augusto Agosta Tota, President of the Antonio Ligabue Study Centre and Archive in Parma, Zavattini’s ballad is followed by a selection of Ligabue’s works, of which only a detail or a portion is shown, and then reproduced in full with the relative technical entries in the List of Works section. Marzio Dall’Acqua contributes to the volume with a detailed biography of the author, from his birth in Zurich in 1899 until his death at the Ricovero Carri in Gualtieri on 27 May 1965, after a troubled life marked by numerous admissions to psychiatric hospitals.