Alfredo Filippini

Alfredo Filippini (Ferrara, 22 October 1924 - Ferrara, 1 June 2020) was an Italian sculptor, painter and illustrator.

Biography

Education Born to Adolfo and Pasquarosa Contri , as a teenager, he worked as a craftsman at Donato Santini, a manufacturer of wooden toys from Ferrara. He was forced to leave his job following a tuberculous infection and to be hospitalized in Valtellina in a sanatorium. Here he met the painter from Cuneo Ego Bianchi, who gave him his first drawing and painting lessons. Having recovered and returned to Ferrara, he was one of the founders of the CAD artistic circle, with which he began to exhibit in the first group exhibitions starting from January 1946 at the foyer of the Municipal Theatre.

Painting As a painter, he particularly cultivated the landscape genre, not neglecting sacred or mythological subjects of figure. Attracted by the chromatism that descended from the Venetian tradition, he performed numerous views of the Dolomites, the Romagna Riviera and the Ferrara plain. Between 1968 and 1971, he attended the Free School of Nude at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna following the courses of Mascalchi and Montanari.

As for the restorations, he devoted himself to sculptures and paintings, both ancient and modern.

Sculpture One of the founders of the Amici dell'Arte Club, in 1982, he began attending the sculpture workshop held by his fellow citizen Laerte Milani at the private school in the former church of San Nicolò. Since then, he alternated the exercise of sculpture with easel painting, holding various personal exhibitions in many regions of Italy.

Attracted by mythological, sacred, sporting and symbolist themes, his production descended from the lesson of the Renaissance contaminated by the style of Milani with influences ranging from Arrigo Minerbi to Francesco Messina, also acquiring lessons that go beyond the purely naturalistic representation, admiring Canova but also the Verismo of Vincenzo Gemito or the multifaceted Giuseppe Virgili but also from the personal attendance of the colleague Ulderico Fabbri.

Replica of a fifteenth-century example now housed in the national Pinacoteca of Ferrara; the clay plaque walled up in the San Leo restaurant in Voghenza; the Fornaia today at the civic center of Pontelagoscuro; the Find in the Ottorino Bacilieri Picture Gallery located in the Voghiera Civic Museum at the Delizia di Belriguardo; Behind the door, today in the headquarters of the Bassani Foundation in the House of Ludovico Ariosto; the mad Orlando in the G. Ferraresi Archaeological Civic Museum in Stellata; an allegorical composition in painted terracotta entitled Sacrifice for a free life in the civic art gallery of Medole; clay works for the Certosa di Ferrara cemetery including the aforementioned Unicorn

Main exhibitions

Personal

For the 90th anniversary of Alfredo Filippini - Ferrara painter and sculptor by Lucio Scardino, Sala Mediolanum, Ferrara, 11/28 - 12/31/2014

Collective

Puerto Sebastian - The myth of San Sebastiano in contemporary art, Renazzo di Cento, Sandro Parmeggiani Museum, 23/1 - 11/4/2010 Galleria Carbone, Ferrara, 15/6 - 7/7/2013 Sebastiano Ferrarese - 25 artists tell about the saint with arrows, curated by Lucio Scardino, Sala Mediolanum, Ferrara, 12/2 - 21/3/2016 Lost Leda - 25 artists evoke Michelangelo's painting for Ferrara, curated by Lucio Scardino, Sala Mediolanum, Ferrara, 16/12/2016 - 10/1/2017 Sebastiano inedito, curated by Lucio Scardino, Gate | Porta, Ferrara, 7-17 / 4/2017 In the month of San Sebastiano, curated by Lucio Scardino, Galleria Cloister, Ferrara, 8-31 / 1/2019 2019 Modern devotions - The cult and myth of St. George with the Dragon, curated by Lucio Scardino, Sala Mediolanum, Ferrara, 1 ° / 3 - 26/4/2019 Water landscapes. Eighty years after the "Mulino del Po", curated by Lucio Scardino, FabulaFineArt Gallery, 27/9 - 15/10/2019 Landscapes of Ferrara - With and without figures. 1900–2020, curated by Lucio Scardino, Mediolanum Room, Ferrara, 21/2 - 31/3/2020 Exhibition curated by The Friends of Art, September 2020