PERMANENT COLLECTION by GIULIANO VANGI - TEMPORARILY CLOSED
Giuliano Vangi was born in 1931 in the Tuscan village of Barberino del Mugello and studied at the Istituto Statale dell’Arte in Florence. In 1959 he moved to Brazil in order to distance himself from the Renaissance humanist tradition. After spending three years in Brazil, Vangi returned to Italy to devote himself to his sculptural experiment, studying different types of materials in order to materialize various states of the human mind in concrete form.
In 1967 Vangi presented a series of his sculptures in a personal exhibition at Florence’s Strozzi Palace, which won him a great deal of attention and praise, because his works seemed to refer to the sense of stagnation and contradiction felt by people in modern society. After this success he extended his activity, exhibiting his sculptures in Europe, Japan and the United States.
In Barberino di Mugello there is a permanent exhibition of Giuliano Vangi, which takes place in Piazza Cavour, 36 c/o il Palazzo Pretorio. It is composed by the polychrome plaster “Ragazza con vestito di lana” and 79 graphics, of different shapes, made with various engraving techniques by Maestro Giuliano Vangi in the years 1964-2006.