13 Facts About Enio Iommi

Enio Iommi was an Argentine visual artist who was particularly well known for his work as a concrete sculptor.

Enio Iommi was born on March 20,1926, in Rosario to the Italian sculptor Santiago Girola and the Italian modiste Maria Iommi.

Claudio and Enio grew up around their father's workshop and learned the craft of sculpture while they submerged themselves into an environment soaking in artistic culture.

Still in his teens, Enio is introduced by his brother Claudio and his uncle Godofredo Iommi to a group of young artists with whom he began to frequent and exchanged ideas about avant-garde art.

Enio Iommi drew visual sustenance from artists such as Max Bill and Georges Vantorgerloo.

In 1953, Enio Iommi met Susana Schneider, a young polyglot Argentine woman of French-Swiss descent, to whom he married three years later and who played a decisive role in the development of his career as an artist.

Enio Iommi began to feel choked with the Concrete art principles.

In 1958, Enio Iommi unveiled his first solo art show in the Pizarro gallery.

Enio Iommi preferred to assemble rustic materials spotted in the street or in similar contexts.

On My Utopies vs the Reality, the last show at the end of the century, Enio Iommi affirmed his criticism about the excess of industrialization and the consumerism typical of the modern lifestyle.

Enio Iommi accomplished this through the assembly of kitsch objects, low-quality plastic, china cups, artificial fruit, toys, brushes and others.

The first decade of the century and the last one of the artist is punctuated by sporadic expositions in which Enio Iommi focused on specific ideas.

Shortly after the show at the Recoleta Cultural Center, Enio Iommi had to undergo a delicate surgical procedure, after which his health became fragile.