Antonio Scordia

Italian, 1918 - 1988

BiographyBorn in Santa Fe, Argentina, in 1918. He moves to Rome with his parents at the early age of thirteen. Between 1936 and 1944 he attends the Free School of the Academy of France. He begins to exhibit in 1945 in Rome and adheres to the Scuola Romana, with a style characterized by a stronger expressionism. From 1947 to 1950 he lives in Argentina. At the end of the Fifties he is back in Europe, and lives in London and Paris. In 1952 he participates for the first time in the Biennale of Venice and will repeat the experience several times in 1954, 1956, 1958 and 1964. At the beginning of the Sixties he also participates in the Biennale of Sao Paolo and of Tokyo and participates in various International Italian exhibitions in the cities of New York, Moscow, Copenhagen, Johannesburg, New Delhi and travels to Egypt, Spain, the USA and Greece. Apart from his art exhibitions during several decades, he also collaborates with Federico Fellini in the scenery of the film Satiricon. His first great anthological organized by the Ente Premi Roma takes place in 1976 at the Palazzo Barberini in Rome. During the Eighties he exhibits in Rome and participates in the show Generazione Anni Dieci in Rieti, in the show Index in Paternò, and in the show L’Astratto Italiano e I suoi maestri degli anni 50 at the Fondazione Michetti di Francavilla a Mare. He dies in Rome in 1988.
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