EMILIO SCANAVINO

Emilio Scanavino was born in 1922 in Genoa. At the end of the 30's he frequented an artistic high school and in 1942 he enrolled at the University of Milan in the faculty of Architecture, studies which he must interrupt due to the enrolment in the army. 8th. September 1943 he abandons the army and refuges in the mountains of Liguria, where he remains until the end of the conflict. In 1946 he marries Giorgina Graglia, whom he met at the artistic high school, who gives him two children, Sebastiano and Paola.

His first appearance goes back to 1950 at the 'Biennale of Venice', where he will be seen again in 1954, 1958, 1960 (invitation with a personal hall) and 1966. In 1951 he holds a personal exhibition in the London Gallery 'Apollinaire' during these years he encounters and makes friends with Fontana, Capogrossi, Jorn, Corneille, Matta, Appel, Lam and Dova, Crippa, Baj, Dangelo, Fabbri. His first contract, in 1957 with merchants Carlo Cardazzo and Peppino Palazzoli, is of extreme importance, it permits him to dedicate himself totally to art. In 1958 he moves to Milan with his family. In 1962 he buys a house in Calice, Ligure, where he sets up a studio and a laboratory for ceramic.
Among the in-numerable personal exhibitions, we should remember the anthological exhibition in 1973 prepared by Kunsthalle of Darmstadt, transferred in the same year to Venice in Palazzo Reale. He dies in Milan 28th. November 1986.