Tancredi

Tancredi Parmeggiani was born in Feltre, near Belluno, on 25 September 1927
He studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Venice and in 1946 he met his friend Emilio Vedova In 1947 he made a trip to Paris and for the next two years lived between Feltre and Venice, where he held his first solo exhibition at the Galleria Sandri in 1949 He moved to Rome in 1950 and joined the Age d’Or group; in 1951 he took part in an exhibition of Italian abstract art at the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna in Rome and settled in Venice, where he met Peggy Guggenheim, who offered him a studio in her palace and organised an exhibition for him in 1954 In 1952 in Venice he received the Graziano Prize for painting and signed the manifesto of Spatialism, the movement founded by Lucio Fontana around 1947 in Milan, which promoted a new ‘spatial’ art
In Tancredi’s works, colour becomes light and is applied through fast and transparent brushstrokes, the pictorial gesture is free: the sensitivity of the colour that inhabits his canvases is linked to the pictorial tradition of the city of Venice, just as the rectangles, semicircles and circles seem to be a reference to the Venetian architecture of Pietro Lombardo and Longhena…

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