NADO CANUTI

Author of the big sculpture that stands out in the MAGI park, Nado Canuti (Bettolle di Siena, 1929), is bound to Giulio Bargellini since many years and shared with him several experiences also in Africa, as another big works of the collection of the Italian-African collection can attest.

 

Author of the big sculpture that stands out in the MAGI park, Nado Canuti (Bettolle di Siena, 1929), is bound to Giulio Bargellini since many years and shared with him several experiences also in Africa, as another big works of the collection of the Italian-African collection can attest.
After an extremely precocious debut as a self-taught painter, the artist devoted himself to sculpture since the mid-Seventies, developing a unique language, cleaned from forms of geometric aspiration, but always tense and dynamic in the search for solid joints and composition balances endlessly declined, sometimes dramatic and sometimes harmonic.
His love for different materials – cement, wood, bronze, marble, resin, precious metals – it is expressed in a comprehensive research, which explores all the dimensional scales, from the monumental one of the big public works to the more intimate one of the art jewel.

BIOGRAPHY

Born in Bettole di Siena in 1929, Nado Canuti is self-taught learner. Involved in the Resistance when he was still very young, he made his debut as a painter in 1950, inspired by the civic commitment shared with many artists of his generation. Since the Sixties his expressive language focused on sculpture, in which he gradually developed an original language, first suspended between stylization and expressionist vehemence in order to express the theme of pain, then turned to a strong abstract synthesis. His works have been exhibited in many countries of the world, where he received important awards and mounted over seventy solo exhibitions. His production of monumental public works and sacred art is also very important. Since many years he lives and works in Milan.