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| Leddi Piero |
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| was born in San Sebastiano Curone in 1930. After the Second World War, he moved to Tortona.
In Leddi's approach to painting, a decisive event was the influence another painter of Tortona, Mario Patri, whom Leddi got to know in the late 1940's.
Leddi settled in Milan in 1951 and for several years he worked on graphics for advertising, at the same time experimenting with his own style of expression and making contact with other artists his age who frequented the Brera.
He had his first solo exhibition in Tortona in 1958,
followed by more than 80 others in the succeeding years, plus more than 130 other exhibitions in collaboration with other artists.
Central to his painting from the beginning has been the "urban encounter:" the interiors of automobiles; discussions among intellectuals; the daily life of families in the city.
Alongside this urban vision is the parallel and recurring theme of the world of traditional farming, and its demise. A symbolic figure of this transformation is found in his painting of Fausto Coppi,
a hero of that vanishing period of rural life, the protagonist of many of Leddi's works, exhibited, among other venues, in La Galleria La Nuova Pesa di Roma in 1966.
At the end of the 1960's,
Leddi began a series of studies of "heads," which were a sign that he was developing new formal structures, while during the 1970's the influence of the artistic tradition
of Lombardy enriched Leddi's work with allegory and metaphor, reflected in his paintings on the theme of the plague. Set alongside these more somber works are depictions with a theme of liberation or escape,
like "Il Carro di Milan (1973-74), or works devoted to the theme of festival, like "Festa sul Ticino" (1978). The next phase of Leddi's work encompasses urban landscapes, which are part of a project based on the
Milanese park called Sempione.. Leddi's reflection on ties to the past is embodied also in his vast cycle of works devoted to the French Revolution, which were exhibited in 1989 at Castello Sforzesco in Milan,
on the occasion of the bicentennial of the French Revolution. In recent years, along with Leddi's perennial interest in the theme of the city (as seen in the exhibit dedicated to Milan that was hung in the Museo
del Permanente in 1995, one can see Leddi taking up in a profound and systematic manner the theme of the body, with the artist striving to represent in ever-changing ways the human anatomy, the internal/external dichotomy,
the relationship of humankind to nature, all this in all the possible configurations, from tragic to sentimental. |
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