Ugo Attardi

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1923 - 2006

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Ugo Attardi (12 March 1923 in Sori – 20 July 2006 in Rome) was an Italian painter, sculptor and writer.
Ugo Attardi moved with his family to Palermo as a child where he attended the Academy of Fine Arts, later joining the faculty of Architecture.  In 1945 he moved, hosted by Pietro Consagra, to Rome.  Here, with some young artists, in 1948, he joined the movement Form One, with abstract guidance, however he developed maturing divergent views than the rest of the group.

In 1948 he participated in the National Exhibition of Fine Arts (V Quadrennial National Art) of Rome.  In the early fifties he orients his art towards expressionism.  Attardi moved from Genoa to Rome in the early 1950s, where he formed the group Forma 1 together with other artists such as Carla Accardi, Pietro Consagra, Piero Dorazio, Mino Guerrini, Concetto Maugeri, Achille Perilli, Antonio Sanfilippo and Giulio Turcato. His sculpture of Ulysses is now permanently installed in Battery Park in New York. In 1952 and in 1954 he was invited to the XXVI and XXVII Venice Biennale.  In the early sixties he participated in numerous exhibitions both in Italy and abroad.  In 1986 and 1987 he exhibited at the ICAF of London and the International Expo of Contemporary Art in Milan.

In 2003 he received the Culture Prize in the Art sector, as an institutional award to signal the figure and work of great artists and cultural figures.  In 2006 he also received by President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, the title of Grand Officer of the Republic, for its artistic merits and for having spread and promote worldwide the Italian genius and creativity.
Ugo Attardi died on 20 July 2006 in Rome.

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