artist/ Armodio

Italy

Armodio, birth name Vilmore Schernardi, was born in Piacenza in 1938. His education depended not so much on his attendance at the “Gazzola” Art Institute of his city, but rather on his meeting with the painter Luciano Spazzali, whose studio constituted the right place for experimentation and contamination. Here he met the painter Gustavo Foppiani, first a teacher and then a traveling companion; the two worked together and later the painter Carlo Bertè joined in and shared the studio until 1980. Thus was formed a free group animated by curiosity towards the most varied manifestations of culture, intent on reading reality under the sign of irony and inclined towards playful transgression. The first solo show in Piacenza was in 1963 at the Genocchi Gallery in Piacenza and in 1964, thanks to Foppiani, he arrived at the Obelisk gallery of Rome. In the sixties the painter stayed for a short period in London and collaborated with the American Lily Shepley and later with the Forni Gallery in Bologna. While in 1972 he met Philippe Guimiot, who opened up his own gallery in Brussels to the artist, thus starting a fruitful collaboration. From that moment on, the majority of his paintings entered important private collections in Europe and the USA After a period with the Gian Ferrari Gallery in Milan, Armodio arrives at the Braga Gallery in Piacenza; once that experience was over, he worked exclusively first with the L’Immagine gallery of Arezzo and then with the Marescalchi gallery of Bologna. Today his work is covered by the major Italian and foreign galleries.