Teodosio Magnoni

Teodosio Magnoni was born in Offanengo (Cremona) in 1934.

He studied art at the Carrara Art Academy in Bergamo and mosaic at the Ravenna School.

In 1959, after long stays in Switzerland, Spain and Sweden, he settled in Rome where he intensely frequented the artistic, literary and musical avant-gardes. At the beginning of the Seventies he carried out research aimed at highlighting not the occupation but the emptying of space. It was in this phase of his research that the transition from painting to sculpture took place. Since then he has been committed to the theoretical elaboration and empirical realization of the Heideggerian concept of the transformation of space into place and of sculpture as a place in itself, alongside an intense reflection on the significant void.

The first personal exhibition was in 1965 at the La Salita gallery in Rome. He has held over fifty personal exhibitions in prestigious private and public museums and galleries in Italy and abroad.
Of note are the Venice Biennials of 1976 and 1978 (personal room), the installation and exhibition at the Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum in Hagen (Germany) in 1978, the anthological exhibitions at the Palazzo dei Consoli in 1987, at the Palazzo del Comune and in city ​​of Venzone (Udine) in 1992, at the Rocca di Umbertide in 1996 and at the Municipal Art Gallery of Cesena in 2001, the exhibition at the Lucy Milton Gallery, London, 1975, at the Galerie Lydia Megert, Bern, 1980, at the galleries Plurima Udine, 1986, Marcello Silva Banchi Nuovi, Rome, 1990, Fioretto contemporary art, Padua, 1992, The black triangle, Alessandria, 1994, the installation at Palazzo Odescalchi, Roman Bassano, 2000, at the Miralli gallery, Viterbo, 2003, at the Marchetti gallery, Rome, 2006, at the Brufa Museum (Perugia), 2007, at the Arte e Pensiero gallery, Rome, 2011, at the Anna Marra Contemporary Art gallery, Rome, 2014. He has participated in historical and trendy exhibitions in Italy and abroad, of which we highlight Biennale Roma-Lazio, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, 1974, Plan & Space, Koninklikje Accademiè, Ghent (Belgium), 1977, 1960-77. Art in Italy, Civic Gallery of Modern Art, Turin, 1977, Line of artistic research in Italy 1960-1980, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, 1981, Virtual structures, Museo di Castel Vecchio, Verona, 1982, Seven contemporary Sculptors from Rome , Sculpture Center, New York, 1987, Die Ecke, Kantonales Konstmuseum, Sitten (Germany), 1988, 60-90, Trente ans d’avant-gardes romaines, Chateau d’Annecy Museum, Annecy (Grenoble), 1990, Contemporary art , Work in progress 6, Macro, Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome, 1999, Punto Uno, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Municipality of Rome, Mara Coccia Association, Seoul, Tokyo, Osaka, 2004, Art Pages, International book review artist, Isernia, 2006, Path in contemporary Italian sculpture, Aldo Furlan Foundation, Spilimberga, 2011, We are all Greek, Binaki Museum, Athens, 2012, Programmed and kinetic art, National Gallery of Modern Art, Rome, 2012.

He has created over twenty large sculptures in public and private places. We highlight Open Spirale, Velletri prison, Rome, 1992, Transparent column, FAO Palace, Rome, 1998, Wings, Museum of Contemporary Art of Maglione (Turin), 1999, Tower of changing colours, Leonardo da Vinci Airport, Rome, 2002, Tre vie, Galleria Giovanni XXIII, Rome, 2004, Ara, Brufa (Perugia), 2007, Body-place, Museo Albornoz, Spoleto, 2007, Torre Tuscia, Capranica, Viterbo, 2019. Lives and works in Sutri.