Ugo Attardi

Ugo Attardi (12 March 1923 in Sori – 20 July 2006 in Rome) was an Italian painter, sculptor and writer.

Biography

Attardi moved from Genoa to Rome in the early 1950s, where he formed the group Forma 1 together with other artists such as Carla Accardi, Pietro Consagra, Piero Dorazio, Mino Guerrini, Concetto Maugeri, Achille Perilli, Antonio Sanfilippo and Giulio Turcato.

His sculpture of Ulysses is now permanently installed in Battery Park City in New York

Main exhibitions

Solo

1976 – Palazzo dei Diamanti, Ferrara

1981 – Rotonda della Besana, Milan

1982 – Galerie Faris, Paris

1983 – Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris

1984 – Galleria MR, Rome

1985 – Palazzo Barberini, Rome

1991 – Palazzo della Penna, Perugia

1995 – Reale Albergo dei Poveri, Palermo

1995 – John F. Kennedy International Airport, New York

1995 – Spazio Italia Art Gallery, New York

1996 – Alitalia Headquarters, Rome

2000 – Centro J. L. Borges, Buenos Aires

2000 – Galleria Pavilion, Córdoba

2003 – Palazzo dei Normanni, Palermo

2005 – Loggiato San Bartolomeo, Palermo

2011 – Convento del Carmine, Marsala

Collective

1947 – Art Club, Rome

1948 – Art Club, Rome

1952 – 26° Venice Biennale, Venice

1954 – 27° Venice Biennale, Venice

1959 – Rome Quadriennale, Rome

1965 – Rome Quadriennale, Rome

1978 – 38° Venice Biennale, Venice

1982 – FIAC Grand Palais, Paris

1986 – Rome Quadriennale, Rome

1992 – Rome Quadriennale, Rome

2012 – Ulisse Gallery, Rome, Italy