Edoardo Giordano (detto Buchicchio)

(1904 - 1974)

Galleria Studio Dieci, as stated by the stamps on the reverse;

Galleria d'arte Serio, Naples, as stated by the label and stamp on the reverse

Exhibition:
"Ultime atmosfere del Novecento italiano", Museo della Badia Benedettina, Cava dei Tirreni, 1998

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Born in 1904 in Naples, Edoardo Giordano owes his nickname to the nickname given to him by his German instructor who had noticed his passion for books (in German "Buch" means book). He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples, where he graduated in 1927. The following year he was among the organizers of the 1st Spring Art Exhibition in Naples, where he exhibited Controluce (Naples, Municipality Collection), a tasteful painting still secessionist. He has exhibited in various museums and galleries in Italy and Europe. The cultural updates made him, in the post-war period, a point of reference for the new generation of Neapolitan painters of the Southern Group, eager not only to break with the recent past but also to free themselves from the local tradition of still nineteenth-century ancestry. G. participated as an outsider in the exhibitions held by the group in 1948 and 1949, entering into relationships with exponents of the MAC, the Concrete Art Movement, founded in Milan driven by the desire for renewal and reconstruction that swept through the country that had just emerged from the war . From 1967 to 1970 G. also taught nude art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples.

(Freely taken from the materceramica.it website)