Farewell to Marche sculptor Valeriano Trubbiani

Sculptor Valeriano Trubbiani, known for his works that recounted the world through the figures of animals (especially rhinos, which abound in his production), rooted in surrealism, died yesterday in Ancona at the age of 82.

Born in Macerata on Dec. 2, 1937, Trubbiani had graduated in 1956 from the Art Institute in his hometown and then moved to Rome where, for five years, he attended the local Academy of Fine Arts (and it was during his time in Rome that he made his debut at the Quadriennale di Roma, in 1959: he would then exhibit there for six more editions, until 1999), and then returned to the Marche region where he began to produce his sculptures in the workshop of his father, who by trade was an ironworker and repaired agricultural tools. His research was immediately noticed so much so that he was able to exhibit in 1963 at the Biennale of Young Artists in Paris, in 1965 at the São Paulo Biennial, and in 1966, when he was not even 30 years old, at the Venice Biennale, where he would return in 1972 and 1978. In 1989, Trubbiani also became an academician of San Luca. His works have been exhibited all over the world and can also be found in public settings. In addition, he also worked briefly as a set designer: in this sphere his collaboration with Federico Fellini and Dante Ferretti on the sets for the film E la nave va is remembered.

In his adopted city, Ancona, two important public sculptures remain, the Mater amabilis and the rhinoceroses in Pertini Square. He was very close to the capital of the Marche region. Mayor Valeria Mancinelli remembers him this way: “A man and an artist who was fundamental for us is leaving. He marked the 20th century in Ancona and made some of the most important symbols of the city. He loved Ancona, which loved him back with passion; the city and him shared a strong and passionate character. In recent years we had carried out a number of enhancement projects, with exhibitions such as Ecce homo and others featuring great twentieth-century Marche artists, with the new rhinoceros lighting and, recently, with the process of acquiring some works for the Pinacoteca, as part of a larger project on him with which we won a call for bids. He has always participated, sometimes even with that polemical spirit but full of love for the city that I have come to appreciate in our meetings.”

Farewell to Marche sculptor Valeriano Trubbiani

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