Bronze Signed: Volti 1915/1989 Bronze, Susse Fondeur, Artist's Proof

Lost wax bronze Bronze with green patina signed VOLTI Artist's proof – Susse Freres Fondeur Paris

Dimensions: long: 30 cm x 20 cm x 15 cm Weight: 4.4 Kg

Antoniucci Volti 1915/1989
Antoniucci Voltigero, known as “Volti” , born January 1, 1915 in Albano (Lazio), Italy and died in Paris on December 14, 1989, is a French artist of Italian origin. Volti was a sculptor, designer and engraver. His sculpture is in line with Rodin, Bourdelle and, above all, Maillol (several works recall the work of Maillol, The Three Graces in particular). All of his work glorifies women and their bodies: “What enchants me in a woman's body are the rhythms and volumes. » Antoniucci's family is from Perugia (Italy). His father was a professional stonemason. He settled in Villefranche-sur-Mer in 1905 and was naturalized French. However, he returned to Italy, where his son was born, then, after the birth, he took up permanent residence in Villefranche in 1920. In 1928, at the age of 12, Voltigero was admitted to the School of Decorative Arts in Nice ( today, the Arson villa). After obtaining a gold medal at the Marseille fair with two polychrome bas-reliefs, in 1932, at the age of 16, he enrolled at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris in the workshop of Jean Boucher. He won the first second Grand Prix de Rome. In addition, he obtained various prizes from the School and the Institute (Roux Prize, Lemaire-Bridau Prize, etc.). Mobilized, after having been ill, he was repatriated in March 1943. He found his workshop at 5 rue Jean Ferrandi destroyed by a bomb in September of that same year. His reflections during his captivity and this disaster destroyed his entire artistic past and the various influences he received from his masters. It was at this time that his sculpture became more personal and he began to sign himself “Volti”: although his past was not completely erased, he considered himself to be an autodidact. After the Liberation, Antoniucci Volti received his first public commissions (the first for the city of Colombes) and began to produce his monumental works always around his favorite subject, woman, devoting his life as an artist to celebrating her: “What What interests me is less the woman than her architecture... It is in the woman's body that I draw my inspiration. » He drew every day from living models, but was above all a sculptor. Throughout his life, he accumulated sketches and studies, in pencil, charcoal or chalk. They allowed him to better analyze the volumes and to find his very particular style, in which we recognize the constant characteristics of Mediterranean statuary. Often compared to Maillol, he said: “Maillol is carnal. I am an architect of sensuality. » He was then influenced by the sculpture of Henry Moore and his simple lines. Some time before his death, he had taken care, with the merchants' association of Villefranche-sur-Mer, to have a bust of Jean Cocteau erected opposite the Saint-Pierre chapel, commissioned from Cyril de La Patellière. A first retrospective of his work was organized in 1957 in Paris and he exhibited regularly at the Salon Comparisons.
Volti's sculptures appear in the squares of many cities (Paris, Angers, Orléans, Colombes, etc.). He is honored with a museum-foundation in the citadel of Villefranche-sur-Mer where he always lived.

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Bronze visible at our gallery in L'Isle sur la Sorgue (France), on weekends.
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