Giancarlo Vitali

Painter and engraver born on Lake Como (Italy), in 1929.

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Giancarlo Vitali was born on the 29th of November 1929 in Bellano on the Lake Como from a family of fishermen. He began painting when he was fifteen, after having worked for the Institute of graphic arts (Bergamo).

* 1947, he exposed his first work at the Angelicum in Milan, on the occasion of the biennial exhibition of sacred art.

* 1949, he came to perform in the biennial exhibition two of his works: "Visitazione" and "Cena in Emmaus receiving enthusiastic appreciation from Carlo Carr. He awarded a fellowship from the Brera Academy but because his family couldn't afford to maintain him in Milan he renounced it. Thus his concerned decisive moment will result in a long period of silence in his striving to fulfillment.

* 1981, his son Velasco, painter as well as his father, supported and encouraged him to begin the activity of engraver.

* 1983, Giovanni Testori after having seen a quartered rabbit wanted to meet the artist. A profound and solid relationship, founded on mutual esteem and admiration, stems from this encounter, which later became a prolonged deep-rooted friendship. The year after Testori dedicated to the artist an article in the third page of the Corriere della Sera and after...