Giuliano Della Casa

Giuliano della Casa (Modena, 1942), painter, ceramist, curator of precious and unusual books, grew up in the Emilia of Adriano Spatola, Luigi Ghirri, Claudio Parmiggiani, and that open and very lively network of writers, musicians, visual artists marked his training alongside Art Schools. After attending the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich for a year, he moved on to the Academy of Bologna, in the sculpture class with Umberto Mastroianni.

After the discovery of experimental poetry, in particular through his friendship with Adriano Spatola, he came into contact with the major representatives of avant-garde literature, in particular Gruppo 63; following this his artistic production radically changed. He approaches watercolor and becomes one of the most requested names for book illustration, in particular for the Einaudi publishing house. Another important partnership is the one with the American poet Paul Vangelisti with whom he began collaborating in the Seventies.

His ceramics produced in collaboration with the Bottega Gatti of Faenza are also masterful.

Della Casa, while not rejecting forms, remains faithful to imaginary objects such as its imaginary alphabet made of symbolic signs that form a cosmos of its own, where poetry can recognize itself in a sign that becomes word, a dialectic of form and color that it makes even the smallest works monumental. His colours, his forms, from which he abolished everything that was not necessary, make della Casa an itinerant artist who has not yet exhausted his imagination and research.

He has exhibited his works in Italy and around the world.