Giuliano Vangi (Barberino del Mugello 1931-Pesaro 2024)

He studied at the Art Institute and later at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence. From 1950 to 1959 he taught at the Pesaro Art Institute and in 1959 moved to Brazil where he devoted himself to abstract studies, working with crystals and metals such as iron and steel. After returning to Italy in 1962, Vangi resumed figuration and exhibited significantly in Italy for the first time at Palazzo Strozzi in 1967. In the following years, he held numerous exhibitions in Europe in Munich, Vienna, Stuttgart, Habsburg, Frankfurt and London. In 1981 he opened his first solo exhibition in New York at Sindin Gallery, and in 1988 he took his works to the East for his first exhibition in Tokyo at Gallery Universe. In Italy he exhibited personally in Milan, Florence, Bologna, Parma, Trieste, Grosseto, Rome, Carrara, Lucca, Ancona, Bergamo, Brescia and Naples. In 1983 he won the Prize of the President of the Republic from the Academy of San Luca, and in 1994 he was appointed Honorary Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Carrara. Giuliano Vangi has created numerous monuments placed in prestigious contexts, such as the statue of St. John the Baptist in Florence, The She-Wolf in Piazza Postierla in Siena, The Crucifix and the new Presbytery for the Cathedral of Padua, the new altar and ambo for the Cathedral of Pisa, Crossing the Threshold-the large marble sculpture at the new entrance to the Vatican Museums, a polychrome wood sculpture for the Garibaldi Hall of the Senate, an ambo in Gargano stone on the theme of Mary of Magdala for the Church of San Giovanni Rotondo dedicated to Padre Pio, inaugurated on July 1, 2004, and created in collaboration with architect Renzo Piano, the Chapel-the new chapel of the municipal cemetery of Azzano (Lucca) inaugurated in October 2002, created together with architect Mario Botta, with whom he also collaborated for The Blessed John XXIII Shrine in Seriate (Bergamo), inaugurated in May 2004. In 2004 he exhibited first in Milan at the Rotonda Besana and then in Pietrasanta.