15 Facts About Franco Angeli

Giuseppe Franco Angeli, the son of Erminia Angeli and Gennaro Gennarini, was born in Via dei Piceni in the Quartiere San Lorenzo district of Rome on May 14,1935.

At the age of nine, following his father's death, Angeli began working as a storeroom boy.

Franco Angeli worked in a car body repair shop and was an upholsterer for a time.

Mannucci had connections with a painter called Alberto Burri and Franco Angeli found the painter's work fascinating.

Franco Angeli adapted Burri's techniques in his own work, eventually borrowing the worn-out materiality of the Catrami.

In March 1959, in a joint exhibition at the Galleria La Salita with Tano Festa and Giuseppe Uncini, Franco Angeli exhibited his works for the first time.

Franco Angeli's featured works consisted of veils of oil paints and nylon stockings stretched tight and covered with gauze.

In 1960, Franco Angeli took part in a collective show, again at the Galleria La Salita, entitled 5 pittori.

In 1962, Franco Angeli took part in "New Perspectives of Italian Painting", an exhibition at the Galleria Comunale d'Arte Moderna in Bologna.

In February 1963, Franco Angeli showed his works along with a poem by Nanni Balestrini in an art exhibition of 13 pittori a Roma, in the Galleria La Tartaruga.

Franco Angeli produced a series of dazibaos: Compagni, Berlino 1945, Compagno vietnamita, Occupazione di un monumento equestre, and Abbraccio eterno.

Franco Angeli had previously thought he had found this in bags, coats of arms and stone inscriptions.

Franco Angeli produced a series of landscapes, including Canto popolare delle Ande, a geometrically inspired work dedicated to the coup in Chile on 11 September 1973.

Franco Angeli returned to the Vietnam war in Anonimo Euroasiatico and Compagni, while he addressed the military coup in Greece.

Franco Angeli's works started to recall the bombings of the Second World War.