Luigi Castiglioni – Wikipéyia

Luigi Castiglioni (born the November 20, 1936 in Milan, Italy and died on June 11, 2003 In Maisons-Laffitte, in the Yvelines, in France) was a contemporary Italian painter and poster.

Luigi Castiglioni is considered “a visionary and dreamlike artist” ^{[ first ]} .

His artistic creations and work are very diverse: painting, posters, cinema and theater sets, magazine covers, frescoes ^{[ 2 ]} .

Luigi Castiglioni’s art expressed itself first at La Scala in Milan as a scenographer when he was a student since the age of 14 (1950-57) at the Brera Fine Arts Academy ^{[ 3 ]} , from where he came out major seven years later, and in Cinecittà (1959-1960) alongside Federico Fellini, for the decorations of La Dolce Vita, the beautiful antonio And War and peace .

Definitively established in Paris in November 1960 , he began a career as a press illustrator and collaborated in Salut les Copains with Daniel Filipacchi; He illustrates records of records ^{[ 4 ]} , Express covers, the point, current values ​​and Jazz Magazine.
Crowned by the Grand Prix Martini in 1969 for the work Music Hall, the Beatles, in 1970 the advertising agencies called on Castiglioni to design and sign the posters of the advertising campaigns “Take the time of a Mutzig”, “Renault 14 “(La Poire),” Cannes “works awarded by the Grand Prix de l’Pace française in 1979,” Ricoré “,” Café Collet “…

At the starting point of its success, the first sports work, the boxing gloves in space, displays announcing the fight that would oppose Carlos Monzon to Jean-Claude Bouttier June 17, 1972 in Paris, for the title of world boxing world champion ^{[ 5 ]} .

Defender of humanitarian causes, in the 1980s he created several posters for doctors of the world including: your solidarity in 1981 for the benefit of Solidarnosc, the Boat People in 1982 and a boat for Lebanon. Other creations will follow including The World Campaign for the Protection of War Victims for the International Red Cross (C.I.C.R.). To his credit, more than 300 posters, humanitarian, cultural, advertising and sports ^{[ 6 ]} .
In 1978 he was the first artist to exhibit during his lifetime at the National Library. The same year he brought art into the Maisons-Laffitte police hotel by painting a fresco of 500 m ^{2 [ 7 ]} . In 1982 he created the credits of Mundial 82 emissions for TF1. In 1984 produced the most ephemeral and grandiose work for educational purposes registered with records of records: The market of a lifetime . A living table of 2,762 m ² (sixty four m × 43 m ), presenting all the food consumed by a woman whose life expectancy is 79 years, (INSEE statistics).

In 1983 the Civic Information Center ordered him from the anti-Absseture poster “vote for the municipal elections” and in 1995 the work
“Let’s go to elect the head of state.” In 1988 a personal exhibition of original models and posters, including a canvas of 10 m × 2 m Commissioned by the Ministry of Culture, is inaugurated at the National Museum of Sport at the Parc des Princes in Paris. In 1989, a month before the fall of the Berlin Wall, a retrospective of painting and posters with 135 works, was presented at the Wilanow Museum in Warsaw: an event inaugurated in the presence of the ministers of the new Polish government from the Solidarnosc movement and in the presence of Cardinal Józef Glemp and Bernard Kouchner. Albert II of Monaco devotes 5 exhibitions, from 1997 to 2001, to honor Luigi Castiglioni ^{[ 8 ]} .

Sports, humanitarian, cultural, advertising posters [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

Luigi Castiglioni is the creator of more than 300 posters, more than half of which is devoted to sports.

Film posters [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

He is in particular the author of the films posters: The wonderful visit by Marcel Carné, Bernadette From Jean Delannoy, of the Avoriaz International Festival of the Fantastic Film, the New Wave, the Jules Verne festival, the Iberian and Latin American festival of Biarritz…

Museum – Painting [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

The National Sports Museum in Nice has the most important collection of painter and poster sports works (around thirty paintings including the canvas of 20 m ² , around twenty drawings, around thirty sketches and more than 150 posters).

A Castiglioni museum is also installed in the house he lived with his wife Tersilia, at 40 rue de Puebla in Maisons-Laffitte. He presents in particular the frescoes in the workshop, the living room, the dining room and on the walls surrounding the garden; Original works, a collection of personal objects and documents.

The Georges Pompidou Center, the Museum of Decorative Arts, the Museum of Modern Art of the City of Saint-Lô, the center of the Toulouse poster, the National Library ^{[ 7 ]} Among others, have original works by Castiglioni.