Gigi Chessa

Luigi Maria Giorgio Chessa (1898 - 1935) was an Italian painter, architect, scenic designer, and potter (ceramics painter).

Biography

He was born in Turin, where he first trained under his father. He attended the Accademia Albertina, first training under Agostino Bosia, but later he was a pupil and protege of Felice Casorati.[1] In 1920, he moved to Anticoli Corrado. By 1922, he began a long collaboration with the "Lenci" company of Turin producing ceramics.

In 1925, he helps design the sets for the presentation in Turin of L'Italiana in Algeri. In 1926, he travels to New York to design sets for the Metropolitan Theater. The next year he is made professor of Scenography for the Scuola Superiore di Architettura of Turin. In 1927, he participates in the III Biennale di Monza, and at the Exposition d'Artistes Italiens Contemporaines in Geneva, and the Promotrice of Turin. In 1928, he exhibits at the Biennale of Venice.

In 1929, he is one of the founders of the Gruppo dei Sei of Turin, a group of expressionist painters active mainly in Turin. Group was formed of Jessie Boswell (1881-1956), Nicola Galante (1883-1969), Carlo Levi (1902-1975), Francesco Menzio (1899-1979), and Enrico Paulucci Delle Roncole (1901-1999). The group exhibits together for about two years, and breaks apart after criticism from fascist authorities. He continues to exhibit during early 1930s, but died from tuberculosis in Turin. His widow, and mother of his two children, would later marry Menzio.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Notes for exhibition of Solo Donna: La Figura Femminile nella prima metà del Novecento in Piemonte, curated by Gianfranco Schialvino; exhibition in the city of Bra in 2011, page 72.
  2. ↑ Archivio di Ceramica, short biography extracted from Encyclopedia Treccani.

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