Description: Gian Berto Vanni has worked in Paris, Rome, Greece and New York, where he taught at the Cooper Union for Sciences and Art.
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Our mission is to promote the work and preserve the legacy of one of the world’s most unique abstract painters of the twentieth century. Our aim is to accomplish those goals by preserving the documents and collection of resources related to G.B. Vanni’s work and by supporting the intercultural aspects associated with his art. By providing an accurate and reliable record of G.B. Vanni's work, which spanned more than seventy years, we seek to promote a deeper appreciation of his artistic sensibility as well a
Our memory stores the emotions and dreams that become the building bricks of our work. They are the essence of what surrounds us, an understanding of the universal rhythms of nature: a tree, a rock, a splash of paint, a procession of ants - they follow the rules of gravity, dynamics, attraction, repulsion - we create images that represent a more intimate way to look at reality - if we follow the universal laws that drive planets, emotions, visions, remembrances reassembled in different ways guided by associ
Gian Berto Vanni was born in Rome, Italy in 1927. He studied with painter-philosopher Alberto Bragaglia in Rome. In 1949 he was awarded a painting scholarship by the Dutch government to study in Holland with De Stijl artist Vordemberge-Gildewart. In 1952 he was awarded a Fullbright Scholarship to study with artist and historic color theorist Joseph Albers at Yale University in New Haven. He has been in Pais, France in the 50s; in Rome, Italy, in the 60s; and in New York City since the end of the 70s. He has