Guelfo Bianchini, detto Guelfo (1937 - 1997) Lot n° 75

Guelfo Bianchini, called Guelfo (1937 - 1997) Flight of a Folleno Metals, blown and ground colored glass, color 181.5 x 126.1 x 3.1 cm (stained glass window) 181.5 x 126.1 x 80 cm (entire structure) Signature: "Guefo" in color on a tile Distinguishing elements: metal plaque with title, separate from sculpture Provenance: Veneto Banca SpA in LCA Conservation status. Support: 95%. Conservation status. Surface: 95%. Between 1957 and 1963 Guelfo is in Rome and forges relationships with Francalancia, Bartolini, De Chirico and Cocteau. In 1961 he is invited by Oskar Kokoschka to Salzburg Castle, where he meets Manzù. He executed the "Journey to Austria" series of drawings and portrayed Kokoschka, receiving the "Portrait of Guelph-Velfen" from the Austrian artist in return. He met Marc Chagall, who gave him the drawing "Profile of Guelph," and on the occasion of the Russian artist's birthday Guelph gave him "Ironic Chagall" (coll. Vence, France). Between 1965 and 1973 he made numerous trips to France where he met Magnelli, Picasso and Miró. Through the friendship of George Visat, a Parisian publisher, he began a collection of works on paper. Since 1957, his Studio dell'Orologio, located in the shadow of Borromini's clock tower, has been a meeting point and then the site of a conciliable gathering of extravagant devotees of pataphysics ("the science of imaginary solutions" that aims to study "what is added to metaphysics, extending as far beyond this as this beyond physics," according to the definition of French writer A. Jarry). He travels to Berlin, Greece and Paris, where he meets Ernst, Tanning, Matta, Ray, Bellmer. The latter two will execute photos and drawings for Guelph. In '71 founds the "Invisible Journal TIC biographical" and the International Museum the Clock. He meets Buñuel, Hans Richter, Masson, who portrays him in a drawing. He meets Hartung, invited by his school, and Lam in Paris. In 1974 he travels through Holland, Denmark, France. Guidi and Cagli draw a portrait of him. In Paris he meets Dali, who sketches a profile of him, and the Visat and Berggruen Galleries exhibit his work. In 1977 it is Pericle Fazzini who executes a portrait of him. In 1978 the Association International Museum of Modern Art - the Clock in Fabriano is founded and Guelfo is president. Madame Arp donates Jean Arp's work "Idol" as a symbol of the Guelfo Museum. In 1979 she enters as the main character in the novel "The Clock Tower" by Franco Simongini. A film is released in the TV show "Artists of Today" "Guelph and the Clock Tower" with a text by Giuliano Briganti and interview by Sergio Pautasso, music by Alvin Curran. The "Invisible Journal TIC (Biographical Logbook)" becomes visible and comes out in art edition: "Guelph's TIC, or Capricci a volo, Giorgio De Chirico, Guelph and Flying Friends," printed in Rome by M. De Rossi, with collaborations by De Chirico, Arp, Dali, Fazzini, Guidi, Kokoschka, Manzù, Mirò, Ray, Strazza, Turcato, poems by Borges and others. Studies for a portrait of him by Riccardo Tommasi Ferroni date back to 1980. Angela Redini dedicated a television report to him, "Guelph on a bicycle in the Baroque courtyards of Rome." In the last period of his life, he also devoted himself to the production of stained glass. Among the most prestigious are those made between 1983 and 1997 for the church of San Giuseppe Lavoratore in Fabriano. The subject of the work is not perspicuous, representing, perhaps, the ascent to heaven of an anthropomorphic figure. An important nucleus of his works is preserved at the Pinacoteca Civica Bruno Molajoli in Fabriano, a town that also houses the artist's house-museum, where his collection is on display.