Events
Godiasco-Salice Terme, biblioteca comunale
- Where: Godiasco-Salice Terme, Public Library
Date: 1983
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Omaggio alla Somalia
- Where: Rome, Istituto Italo-Africano
Date: 1980
This exhibition focused again on Novaresio’s African memories. The paintings displayed here were largely appreciated by the public and critics. After the exhibition, all the works were taken to the Somali Embassy to be selected: inexplicably, they remained there for seven years.
Milano, Galleria Palmieri, 1978
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- Where: Milan, Galleria Palmieri
Date: 1978
Novaresio exhibited a series of abstract paintings created with full, concise strokes. In these years, the artist opened a studio in Milan.Images and scans
- Where: Milan, Galleria Palmieri
Pittura contemporanea
- Where: Sesto San Giovanni (Mi), Elle et Lui Club
Date: 1977
This collective exhibition was organized in a very unusual venue: a beauty salon. Among the artists who took part in the event was Omiccioli.
Motonave Irpinia (Alessandria d’Egitto, Beirut, Kaifa,Istanbul Atene)
- Where: Motorship Irpinia (Alexandria, Beirut, Kaifa, Istanbul and Athens)
Date: 1974
8 proposte per un manifesto contro la guerra
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- Luogo:
- Genova, Galleria il punto
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- 1974
La critica salutò con entusiasmo il ritorno, dopo vent’anni, di una personale di Novaresio a Genova, sottolineando l’importanza dell’artista nel movimento di avanguardia cittadina. L’esposizione era formata da due sezioni: un’antologica (1943-1973) e le “8 proposte per un manifesto contro la guerra”, opere di decisa condanna degli orrori bellici, nelle quali emergono anche i ricordi personali dell’artista.
Immagini e scansioni
Sassari, Padiglione dell’artigianato
- Where: Sassari, Padiglione dell’Artigianato,
Date: 1963
According to the newspapers of that period, the exhibition was largely appreciated by the public and critics, who saw in Novaresio’s African paintings “an unconventional Africa, portrayed through an in-depth knowledge of various countries: Somalia, Rhodesia, Tanganyika and South Africa”.
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Somali a palazzo San Giorgio
Where: Genoa, Palazzo San Giorgio
Date: 1962
Novaresio did not personally take part in this exhibition, but promoted it actively and passionately. The real protagonists of this event were Aden Mohamed, Fatuma Giana and Isuf, three young Somali artists. The exhibition also included a series of small sculptures from the Museum of the Istituto Italiano per l’Africa.
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Immagini e scansioni
Visions of Kariba
- Where: Salisbury (Rhodesia), Rhodes National Gallery
Date: 1960
This is probably one of Novaresio’s most original exhibitions. The works displayed here focus on the construction of the Kariba dam: the artist portrayed the creation of the reservoir through drawings of views and workers. This exhibition (which also included the works of the explorer Thomas Baines) was honoured by a visit from Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother.
Immagini e scansioni
Johannesburg (Sudafrica), The Vanguard Gallery
- Where: Johannesburg (South Africa), The Vanguard Gallery
Date: 1956
Another example of Novaresio’s international activity. The local press was very interested in this exhibition, pointing out the versatility of his drawing technique: this stylistic choice was considered particularly suitable to portray the African people and landscape, which the artist captured with immediacy, creating what he called “notes on a journey”.
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Tempere di Giovanni Novaresio
- Where: Kismayo (Somalia), Kismayo School
Date: 1954
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This is Novaresio’s first solo exhibition outside Italy. The artist described it as a tribute to Somalia: he did not yet know that this would be the first of a long series of exhibitions on his land of adoption. Landscapes and, above all, figures of warriors and young Somali women were the main features of the artist’s production, even in the years of maturity.
