Pistoia pays tribute to Pietro Bugiani with an exhibition

The year of Pistoia Italian Capital of Culture is coming to a close: the City Council has taken the opportunity to end it on a high note with the exhibition "Pietro Bugiani. A Master of the Twentieth Century in Pistoia," a tribute to the artist that critics have recognized as fundamental not only to Pistoia. The exhibition, with free admission, will be held in the Frescoed Rooms of the Municipal Palace, will open Thursday, Dec. 21, at 5:30 p.m. and will remain open until Jan. 7, 2018.

Born in Pistoia in 1905, Pietro Bugiani learned the first rudiments of painting from his father, a teacher of literature and violin who dabbled in the art of painting, attended the School of Applied Art for Industry (later the Art Institute) in Florence, where he received esteemed attention from Prof. Cavalieri and, later, theAcademy of Fine Arts (with Felice Carena) and the Free School of the Nude.
His first exhibition was at the age of 19, eliciting acclaim and encouragement that led him to frequent the Florentine artistic milieu.

He served in the military in Turin between 1925 and 1926, which gave him the opportunity to meet Felice Casorati, an avant-garde artist who determined the outcomes of Bugliani’s painting. Around 1927, he sojourned in Rome, where he carried out decorative works with Giovanni Michelucci, and in 1928 he returned to Pistoia, where he resumed his pictorial production and met Ardengo Soffici, with whom he began a friendship, based on mutual esteem, that would last until the latter’s death.

From 1929, the year in which he was invited to the II Mostra del Novecento Italiano, he alternated his exhibition activity (several times invited to the Venice Biennials, in ’40 with a solo exhibition, to the Quadriennali in Rome and to other national and international exhibitions) with long periods of retreat during which he deepened his study of 19th-century painting. Bugliani was also a teacher at the Faculty of Architecture and theAcademy of Fine Arts in Florence and at theArt Institute of Pistoia and the Liceo Artistico in Florence.

Pistoia pays tribute to Pietro Bugiani with an exhibition

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