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Carlo Cardazzo<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

The Beginnings<\/h3>\n

Carlo Cardazzo<\/strong> was born in Venice in 1908 where he died too young in 1963.<\/span><\/p>\n

His education was not in art. He worked with his father who was a businessman in the construction field. As he had financial resources, he decided to invest them in artworks, first approaching art as a collector.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

He met <\/span>Giuseppe Cesetti<\/b>, a painter from Maremma in Tuscany, who was an assistant to Virgilio Guidi at the Academy and became his right-hand man. Cesetti supported Cardazzo on his path as a collector, suggesting which artists to invest in. Cesetti connected him with the Galleria del Millione and the Barbaroux Gallery in Milan.<\/span><\/p>\n

Il Cavallino’s cultural movement<\/b><\/h2>\n

Cardazzo and Cesetti started a cultural movement marked by \u201cIl Cavallino\u201d (small horse, which Giuseppe Cesetti often painted). The horse was even engraved on the jamb of Cardazzo’s house at Calle dei Ragusei 34\/78 in Dorsoduro.<\/span><\/p>\n

Cultural Saturdays at Cardazzo’s<\/b><\/h3>\n

On Saturdays, his home became a key gathering point for artists, poets, writers, critics, and scholars \u2013 an art and literary salon. Visitors could admire Cardazzo’s collected works that hung on the walls, talk about art, listen to music, and appreciate his library, which he made available to all comers. He had an extensive library full of foreign authors who were banned at that historical period. In a letter to Santomaso, he wrote that he had bought a <\/span>Cahier d’Art<\/span><\/i>, the era’s most important contemporary art magazine, published in Paris.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Carlo Cardazzo and film <\/b>
\n<\/b>In 1932, was organised for the first time the The Venice International Film Festival.<\/span>Cardazzo was also interested in film. <\/span><\/h3>\n

Cardazzo made two documentary films, “<\/span>Scene della strada”<\/span><\/i> (or <\/span>Visioni veneziane<\/span><\/i>) and \u201cRiflessi<\/em>.\u201d<\/span><\/h3>\n
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Which artists did Carlo Cardazzo collect?<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n

The photos taken at the time in his home\/studio show pieces that we can recognize as by Carlo Carr\u00e0<\/strong>, Filippo De Pisis<\/strong>, Giorgio De Chirico<\/strong>, Virgilio Guidi<\/strong>, Gino Rossi, Scipione<\/strong>, Campigli, the then-unknown Giorgio Morandi, and Amedeo Modigliani as well as graphics and drawings. (Even Modigliani’s paintings were banned at the time.)<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n