Guido Dettoni della Grazia explained

Guido Dettoni della Grazia
Birth Date:1945
Birth Place:Milan
Nationality:Italian
Known For:Tau, MARIA

Guido Dettoni della Grazia is an Italian visual artist and sculptor of sacred works. He has developed a following among pilgrims and private collectors who have collected his art since the 1960s.[1] [2] His Tau sculpture is in the Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi in Italy, and it and MARIA have been featured in guide books and sites such as Lonely Planet Umbria,[3] Rick Steves' Italy,[4] and TripAdvisor.[5] [6] [7] MARIA has been installed permanently at the Church of Saint Sulpice in Paris,[8] the Church of Santa Maria Delle Rose in Assisi,[9] and major churches in Austria (Jesuit Church of Innsbruck), the Czech Republic (Church of Our Lady of the Snows, Prague),[10] France (Biennale of Contemporary Sacred Art),[11] Germany (Old Saint Nicholas Church, Frankfurt),[12] Italy, Portugal, Singapore, and Spain.[5] [13]

Early life and education

He was born in Milan, Italy, in 1945 to Maria della Grazia, a sculptor, and Franco Dettoni, an entrepreneur and inventor.[14] He has a brother, Luca, and a sister, Parisina. As a child he played in the park at Milan's Castello Sforzesco, and his engagement with mud near a fountain inspired his first hand sculptures.[15] What he calls "gameplay and joy" led him to create mud shapes that appeared and disappeared in his hands as he named them, and this hand-mold style continues in his work to this day in his style, "Handsmatter."[16]

Dettoni attended a Jesuit school, Charles Borromeo, in Milan. One day when he was 14, he read the story of the Greek philosopher Bias of Priene in Cicero's Paradoxa Stoicorum. When Bias of Priene was asked why he was empty handed when fleeing the destruction of his city, he replied: omnia mea mecum porto (All that's mine I carry with me).[17] Dettoni refers to this as his revelation.[18]

Career

He moved from Italy to Germany at age 15, finding a job in a factory in Düsseldorf and studying with artists, working in traditional pencil before moving to color studies. In the 1960s he left Germany for Austria, and then spent time in Spain and Venezuela, settling for a time at the Art Workshop in Caracas.[19] [20] He refers to his unique sculptural style as "Handsmatter," which he developed in the 1970s.[21] [22] [23] He created his first images of MARIA in 1995 with wax from Puebla, Mexico. He first exhibited this work in Barcelona in January, 1998.

Notes and References

  1. Book: Kordiuk, Ihor . STUDENT . 1 December 1974 . Ukrainian Canadian Students' Union (SUSK) . 5.
  2. 1 January 1979 . Terra Aranesa . Museu Publicaciun Etnulogic de'ra Val d'Aran . 5 . 12 . Internet Archive.
  3. Book: Franzon . Anita . Umbria . Carulli . Remo . 26 May 2023 . Lonely Planet . 978-88-592-8921-0 . Italy . 270 . it.
  4. Book: Steves, Rick . Rick Steves' Italy . October 4, 2005 . Avalon Travel Publishing . Internet Archive . 978-1-56691-727-8 . 438.
  5. Web site: Chiesa di Santa Maria delle Rose. Mostra Maria, Assisi . 2024-03-20 . Tripadvisor . en.
  6. Web site: I came upon this exhibition by chance - Review of Chiesa di Santa Maria delle Rose. Mostra Maria, Assisi, Italy . 2024-03-20 . Tripadvisor . en.
  7. Web site: Assisi an Exhibition you must see - Chiesa di Santa Maria delle Rose. Mostra Maria, Assisi Traveller Reviews . 2024-03-20 . Tripadvisor . en-GB.
  8. Web site: Saint Sulpice, Paris - Exhibition 2004 - MARIA by Guido Dettoni della Grazia . 2024-03-19 . MARIA . en-US.
  9. Web site: Santa Maria delle Rose's Church in Assisi - MARIA by Guido Dettoni della Grazia . 2024-03-19 . MARIA . en-US.
  10. Web site: MARIA by Guido Dettoni della Grazia Scoop News . March 19, 2024 . Scoop Culture, New Zealand.
  11. Web site: 2023 Artists – Biennale of Contemporary Sacred Art . 2024-03-19 . en-US.
  12. Web site: Alte Nikolaikirche, Frankfurt am Mai - Exhibition 2001 - MARIA by Guido Dettoni della Grazia . 2024-03-20 . MARIA . en-US.
  13. Book: El Cultural . February 2002 . Edita Prensa Europea S.A. . 2002 . es.
  14. Web site: Catti . Alex . 15 May 2017 . Sculpting for Peace with Guido Dettoni [at Hofstra University] ]. 2024-03-20 . iItaly.org . en.
  15. Book: Modica, Ilene and Gary . Our Italian Journey . 20 November 2020 . Boston Harbor Press . 162 . en.
  16. Book: O'Brien, Maureen . Gather the Fragments: My Year of Finding God's Love . 2023-03-07 . Franciscan Media . 978-1-63253-424-8 . en.
  17. Brown . Nell Porter . July–August 2012 . Omnia Mea Mecum Porto: "All that's mine I carry with me" gains popularity . Harvard Magazine.
  18. Web site: Dettoni della Grazia . Guido . Omnia Mea Mecum Porto . 19 March 2024.
  19. Book: Inside the Vatican . 1993 . Urbi et Orbi Communications . 10 . Vatican City . 23.
  20. Book: von Eichborn, Vito . Mein Mallorca . mareverlag . 2013 . 978-3-86648-363-7 . Hamburg, Germany . 21 . de.
  21. Web site: Webb . Jennifer . Guido Dettoni della Grazia's Maria in Santa Maria delle Rose in Assisi . 19 March 2024.
  22. Web site: Guido Dettoni Sculpture Australia . 2024-03-19 . Maggie M. . en.
  23. Web site: Webb . Jennifer D. . 30 June 2019 . Guido Dettoni della Grazia's "Maria" in Santa Maria delle Rose in Assisi . 19 March 2024 . IASBlog (Italian Art Society).

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