Virgilio Guidi

Rome 1891-Venice 1984 painter

Guidi trained as a painter under Giulio Aristide Sartorio at Rome’s fine arts academy and was influenced by Armando Spadini before developing his own style in response to the work of Piero della Francesca and Giotto.

He began exhibiting in 1915 at the First International Secession exhibition in Rome, after which he took part in all the important art shows like the Rome and Venice biennials, the Quadriennale di Roma, and the Sindacale del Lazio. Guidi quickly established himself as a clear star of the Italian art world.

We can see a metaphysical desire to displace the image in works like The Airship (1922) and especially On the Tram (1923, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna). The latter, shown in 1924 at the Venice Biennale, is a metaphysical masterpiece of the 1920s and was a benchmark for younger Roman painters like Di Cocco, Mazzacurati, and the tonalists.

He left Rome in the late 1920s when he was hired to take over from Ettore Tito as head of painting at the fine arts academy in Venice.

Exhibitions

1915 – III° Mostra della Secessione romana

1920, 1922, 1924, 1928, 1932, 1936, 1948, Biennale di Venezia

1926, 1929 – I°mostra del “Novecento Italiano” in Milan

1931, 1935 – Quadriennale di Roma

1940, 1954, 1964 –  Biennale di Venezia

1942 – Galleria del Cavallino by Carlo Randazzo Venice and Galleria il  Milione in Milan

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