The bard celebrates two other fine practitioners of the art, and laments a lost brewer
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A rebellion in heaven
CHRISTINE LINDEY ponders the curious imagery of an Italian painter, in the time of fascism
Rebellious Angel with Red Heart, 1953, detail; Portrait of Nanny, 1926
[Courtesy of Esoterick Gallery]
This right-wing conspiracy theory is used to justify the coercive measures against gender, race and labour rights that best serve capitalism, attests GAVIN O’TOOLE
KENNY MONROSE recommends a new exhibition that highlights the significance of Black British music
ANGUS REID is bowled over by an exuberant film about the making of Keith Jarrett’s legendary concert
MARIA DUARTE, FIONA O’CONNOR and ANDY HEDGECOCK review Savage House, Enzo, Madfabulous, and Erupcja
CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
Osvaldo Licini: Rebellious Angel
Esoterick Collection, London
OSVALDO LICINI (1894-1958) was born to a seamstress and a commercial artist in the hill town of Monte Vidon Corrado in Italy’s Marche region.
He studied at Bologna’s Academy of Fine Art from the age of 14 and by 1913, when not yet 20 years old he had already participated in Futurist events, thereby showing a precocious hunger for avant-garde departures from traditional styles. Yet even his early works never shared Italian Futurism’s aggressive stylistic and ideological characteristics.
Having being seriously injured while soldiering as a conscript in the first world war, Licini moved to Paris in 1917 to convalesce with his parents who had moved there permanently in 1902.
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