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"Artistically trained in the Genoa environments (in 1907 he began the marble apprenticeship at the workshops of Rigacci and Callegari), Francesco Messina moves to Milan in 1932 and in 1934 he obtained the post of Sculpture teacher at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts, becoming then its Director from 1936 through 1944. In the Thirties and Forties, he participated in the most important group shows of Italian art abroad.
From 1950 to 1960 he presented numerous solo shows, and his works are located at the Monumental Cemetery of Milan, in the Church of Saint Eugene in Rome, and at the Citadel of Assisi. In 1961-’62, his monument to Saint Catherine of Siena has been placed at the Castle of the Holy Angel.
In 1973-’74, he has been assigned the Borgia Room of the Vatican Gallery, with the permanent exposition of 20 works of sacred theme; the City of Milan conceded him the deconsecrated Church of Saint Sixtus at Carrobbio, which, once restored, became the site of his Museum-Studio, today “Francesco Messina” Civic Museum’ with more than one-hundred exhibited works.
His art, influenced by the most important artists and writers of the Twentieth Century, is distinguished by his “simple and grandiose making, and for his idealistic and classic method, able to generate forms which remain as ideal images” (Carlo Carrà, 1929). He is considered one of the greatest representatives of the figurative art of the Twentieth Century; his works are part of private collections, public spaces, and prestigious museums all over the world.
Through Lorenzo Viani, in 1922 Messina discovered Versilia, by attending the workshop of the Knight Giovanni Beretta, the Nicoli Studios of Carrara, the workshops of the Galeotti Brothers’, of Quirino Gamba and of Sergio Spadaccini of Pietrasanta. Here he took part to some exhibition and received the “Pietrasanta e la Versilia nel Mondo [Pietrasanta and Versilia in the World]” Award in 1993. Since 1997, his work Il Pugilatore [The Boxer] has been part of the International Park of the Contemporary Sculpture of Pietrasanta, in Vicolo delle Monache. At the “Pierluigi Gherardi” Museo dei Bozzetti of Pietrasanta, it is possible to admire, the in the round bronze sculpture Pugile seduto [Seated Boxer] of 1956.
“What interests Messina is the idea itself of the movement, its essence. His idea is that we do not finish to see. Reality offers unparalleled images, which sculpture highlights without device. Messina is therefore the artist of the wonder of the naturalness, and even better he verifies it in the pure contemplation without inventing unusual situation and without abandoning the certainty of the man’s centrality.” (Vittorio Sgarbi, 1989)."
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