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Massimo Campigli
"I would like that my painting gives satisfaction to the sense and the spirit."
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"Coup de coeur" by Massimo Campigli
« Campigli la ruche » de Massimo Campigli - Avril 2019
Album de 1952, texte de Jean Paulhan, illustré de dix lithographies originales signées de l'artiste.
En 1949, Jean Paulhan offre à son ami Massimo Campigli un beau texte pour la revue XXème Siècle. « Campigli la ruche » touche tant le peintre qu'il envisage d'en faire le support d'un album de dix lithographies. « La collana », « L'abbraccio », « Donne ai telai », « Donne a Ischia », « Donne al tavolino », « Gioco con il filo »* . . ., les grands thèmes de l'artiste y sont réunis, dans un ensemble tout en délicatesse et harmonie.
La Ruche, bâtie en 1902, Campigli l'a certainement connue. Il débarque à Paris en 1919 en qualité de correspondant du Corriere della Sera, et s'installe tout près, rue Daguerre.
La cité d'artistes du passage Dantzig, haut-lieu de la création artistique de ce tout début de siècle, doit son nom aux ateliers disposés en alvéoles autour d'un escalier central.
La ruche, c'est aussi l'ensemble des cellules dans lesquelles les abeilles s'affairent, résolument dédiées à leurs tâches. C'est enfin cet espace, où le féminin règne, comme dans les tableaux de Massimo Campigli. Le monde des femmes, dès l'enfance, l'artiste en a fait son miel, par l'observation de ces créatures laborieuses ou des idoles de musées visités avec ferveur. Les petites statuettes, à l'abri de vitrines, veillées par des cerbères imposants, nourrissent ses rêves ; dans ses songes, il dispose ses élues dans les loges d'un théâtre imaginaire que le regard embrasse depuis la scène. Mais le petit garçon puise aussi ses déesses parmi les dames épiées à leurs travaux d'aiguille, celles de Settignano qui confectionnent des tresses pour les chapeaux de paille, les femmes corsetées et parées, dignes d'égards exclusifs, et pour autant, quel que soit leur statut social, toutes demeurent enfermées dans des codes stricts, dont le mystère le fascine.
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Stamp by Massimo Campigli
The publication of a postal stamp is often a homage paid by a nation to a place, an event, a remarkable cause or a character which count. The painters and other artists do not escape from this rule. Some are however "forgotten" of postal art. Here, gathered below (French or foreign), emitted stamps (206) or simple studies of stamp (224) in homage to the artists represented on our website. The first French stamp was emitted in 1849, England preceded us by ten years. There is often a share of voyage in this small form of shape paper. The stamp circulates, sails, flies away, it makes dream, then dream a little. M.C.
When the stamp is really emitted, the artist name is preceded of an asterisk (*). It is certain that we do not know each stamp emitted for such or such artist; do not hesitate with us to make known them!
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Max Ihlenfeld was born in Berlin (Germany) in 1895. His father was unknown. His mother emigrated quickly in Italy (Florence); he changed is birth name later, at the time of the request for Italian naturalization, and obtained a new one: Massimo Campigli. He spent most of his youth in Milan, close to Boccioni and the futuristic painters. He took part in the avant-garde newspaper “Lacerba” with his texts and drawings. Campigli painted most of his time.
Came the First World War and the young man was marked by the trench warfare. In 1919, he was sent in Paris as press correspondent; nevertheless he continued to paint, far from the market tossing. He was a time influenced by the cubism, as defined by the “purists” (Ozenfant, Corbusier). This influence was supplemented by the metaphysical painting (de Chirico, Carra, etc). With these two sphere of influence, the artist found his own style, with always in mind a painting built as a whole and in his elements.
Campigli got a difficult material life. He stayed in Paris until 1939, and took part in collective exhibitions in France and abroad. His first personal exhibition was organised in 1929 with the gallery Jeanne Bucher. Others followed (Venice, New York, etc). From the end of 20’s and in the Thirties, the artist was interested in the Cretan frescos, in Pompeii and Quattrocento one’s, in the enigmatic portraits of Fayoum, in Etruscan paintings. Through theses centres of interest, the artist set the principal components of his art. He painted mostly female characters.
In the same time to his painting, Massimo Campigli built an important work on paper: lithographs, engravings, illustrated books. In 1939, the artist carried out a large fresco for the University of Padova.
After the Second World War, the artist came back to Paris in 1948. Numerous personal exhibitions were organised in the Galerie de France. He lived in Montparnasse, was a very discrete man although he had an imposing stature, liking himself loneliness, continuing to work out, in spite of a reference to the classicism, a very particular figurative work and a singular universe.
Massimo Campigli died in 1971 in Saint-Tropez (Var, France).
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Some were created in lithographic technic, most are simple offset reproductions. They are many those who like collecting these rectangles of paper, monochrome or in games of colours, in matt paper or brilliant, with many words or almost dumb.
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* « Opera grafica 1930-1969 », F. Meloni e L. Tavola, Ed. Graphis Arte, Livorno, 1995
* « M. C. : Complete catalogue », Vol. I et II, Maurice Raynal, Ed. Silvana, 2013
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To read about the artist :
- « Campigli - Peintures 1928-1948 », Maurice Raynal, Ed. Jeanne Bucher, 1949
- « Campigli », Jean Cassou, Ed. de L'œuvre gravée, Paris-Zurich, 1957
- « Les idoles de Campigli », A. Chastel, Cat., Galerie de France, Paris, 1961
- « Maximo Campigli », Cat. d’expo. Padoue, Ed. Electa, 1994
- « Les italiens de Paris », M. Fagialo dell'Arco, cat., Brescia, Ed. Skira, 1998
- « Campigli », André Chastel, Maurice Raynal, cat., Galerie Tega, Milan, 2000
- « Massimo Campigli », collectif, Ed. Renografica, 2001
- « M. Campigli 1895-1971. Essere altrove, essere altrimenti », Ed. Skira, 2001
- « Campigli Massimo. Pittura e archeologia », A. Ferrara Ed., 2002
- « M. Campigli - Mediterraneità e modernità », E. Pontiggia et autres, Ed. Mazzotta, 2003
To read from the artist :
- « Campigli e i busti », Ed. del Cavallino, Venise, 1941
- « Scupoli », Ed. del Cavallino, Venise, 1955, (réed) 1965 et 2002
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Stamp by Massimo Campigli
The publication of a postal stamp is often a homage paid by a nation to a place, an event, a remarkable cause or a character which count. The painters and other artists do not escape from this rule. Some are however "forgotten" of postal art. Here, gathered below (French or foreign), emitted stamps (206) or simple studies of stamp (224) in homage to the artists represented on our website. The first French stamp was emitted in 1849, England preceded us by ten years. There is often a share of voyage in this small form of shape paper. The stamp circulates, sails, flies away, it makes dream, then dream a little. M.C.
When the stamp is really emitted, the artist name is preceded of an asterisk (*). It is certain that we do not know each stamp emitted for such or such artist; do not hesitate with us to make known them!
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