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Born in 1923, the painter Giuseppe Ajmone moved to Milan in 1941 where he attended painting classes at the Academy of Fine Arts in Brera under the direction of Achille Funi and Carlo Carrà. In 1944, he shared his studio with Morlotti and Cassinari and joined the editorial staff of several art journals...
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Biography of Giuseppe Ajmone
Born in 1923, the painter Giuseppe Ajmone moved to Milan in 1941 where he attended painting classes at the Academy of Fine Arts in Brera under the direction of Achille Funi and Carlo Carrà. In 1944, he shared his studio with Morlotti and Cassinari and joined the editorial staff of several art journals ("Numéro" in 1944, "Peinture" from 1946 to 1948 and the magazine Cahiers Milanais from 1960 to 1962). In 1946, Giuseppe Ajmone signed the Manifesto of Realism also known as "Beyond Guernica". In the 50s and 60s, he participated in the Venice Biennale, and also in the Sao Paolo and Tokyo Biennales. During this period he exhibited in Pittsburgh, Copenhagen, Nuremberg and Buenos Aires. In 1972 in Milan, he participated in the exhibition "Milan 70-70", then in the exhibition "50 years of Italian painting". His painting will be influenced by major artists such as Bonnard, Picasso, Braque, Nicolas De Staël, but Ajmone will converge his need for solitude, for escape to the landscapes of his native region, along the river Sesia. Ajmone is the artist of a refined, subtle, melancholic and intimate painting. His works also express the rage of an intimate tension that has been lived and suffered with intensity. The female nude is a central theme in Ajmone's figurative work. In 1982 he moved to Romagnano Sesia (Novara) where he lived for the rest of his life. In the 80s and 90s, he exhibited his famous series of "drowned nudes" inspired by various events at the Permanente in Milan and participated in the exhibition "Italian Informal Painting of the sign and the material". In 2000, the Mercurio Art Center in Palermo dedicated a retrospective exhibition to him, "Ajmone opere scelte 1960-1990". Giuseppe Ajmone died in 2005 in Romagnano Sesia.