Gianfranco Missiaja artistic activity - Original Venice mask - Italian theater sec. XVIII°

ENGLISH VERSION size cm. 21 x 29

Color Picture Book

Pages 145

Understanding contemporary art doesn’t seem to be within everyone’s reach. Gianfranco Missiaja through his works, seems to have succeeded in demonstrating how it is possible by the simple observation of his works: in almost 40 years of activity, in the four periods of his artistic experience, from the figurative to abstraction, passing through the different aspects of the theatre and its historical characters, he manages to make us enthusiastic by involving us in the realization of the work of art using his personal method of graphical analysis, which evolves into a compositive synthesis made noteworthy by art critic Paolo Rizzi.

 His love for theatre is told to us by his splendid backdrops that take on life while interpreting the characters of the Comedy of Art, in the realization of his paintings on the masks, right up to the discovery of the carnival in Venice. 

 From his teaching experiences in various Italian cities, to the participation and numerous exhibitions abroad, Gianfranco Missiaja helps us discover his own life for art where he seems to explain to us how we can manage to find our true attitude: by following step by step, almost hand in hand, he accompanies us along this convincing journey in the discovery of oneself, showing how we can realize our most authentic passions, by externalizing by his project iter, what meanings can today express modern and contemporary art.

9             Preface

 11           First period artistic activity

27           Second period artistic activity

28           Scenes of the theatre

30           The story of the mask

39           The artist’s comment

47           The Comedy of the art

55           The carnival in Veni

69           Third period artistic activity

72           The artist’s comment

76           Critical comment by Paolo Rizzi

89           Fourth period artistic activity

111         Fifth period of artistic activity

               and interview with the artist

 112         Interview with the artist

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