Ieri e Oggi
by
Armando Baldinelli
From the estate collection of the late Armando Baldinelli,
curated by Chris de Klerk
16 September 2020
Baldinelli was a versatile artist who also did charcoal drawings, oil paintings (including an enormous one for the State Theatre in Pretoria), watercolours, stone paintings, wood engravings and frescoes, many of which are in galleries and private and corporate collections in Rome, Florence, Milan, Bologna, Venice, New York, London, Tokyo and South Africa. Baldinelli was born in the Italian city of Ancona on September 13 1908. He began his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome when he was 17, and continued at the Bologna Lyceum and the School of Advanced Arts in Modena. By 30 he had become a regular participant in the Venice Biennale and had exhibited in Berlin, Budapest and cities throughout Italy. He saw active service in World War 2. He became a captain and was leaving for the Russian front (where half the Italian army had been slaughtered) when the war ended. Afterwards he travelled and exhibited extensively in Europe, the US and the Far East. By the 1950s, his wife, Gianna, had died (at the age of 26), and he had become disaffected by the increasingly turbulent state of affairs in post-war Italy where the rise in popularity of the communists was not the least of his concerns. A friend who was managing the Carlton Hotel in Johannesburg suggested he visit South Africa. He fell in love with the country and with indications that there'd be a good market for his work, he decided to stay.
Baldinelli was a small, gregarious man with boundless energy. He was driven by a relentless hunger to transform his passion into art as directly as possible, and an equally relentless appetite for popular recognition. Baldinelli never remarried, but bachelorhood had its compensations. His eye for young, beautiful women was legendary. The female form, along with the South African landscape, was his greatest source of inspiration and its rounded shapes are evident in most of his work.
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