About the artist:

Ugo Attardi (12 March 1923 in Sori – 20 July 2006 in Rome) was an Italian painter, sculptor and writer. Attardi moved from Genoa to Rome in the early 1950s, where he formed the group Forma 1 together with other artists such as Carla Accardi, Pietro Consagra, Piero Dorazio, Mino Guerrini, Concetto Maugeri, Achille Perilli, Antonio Sanfilippo and Giulio Turcato. His sculpture of Ulysses is now permanently installed in Battery Park in New York. Solo Exhibitions 1976 – Palazzo dei Diamanti, Ferrara 1981 – Rotonda della Besana, Milan 1982 – Galerie Faris, Paris 1983 – Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris 1984 – Galleria MR, Rome 1985 – Palazzo Barberini, Rome 1991 – Palazzo della Penna, Perugia 1995 – Reale Albergo dei Poveri, Palermo 1995 – John F. Kennedy International Airport, New York 1995 – Spazio Italia Art Gallery, New York 1996 – Alitalia Headquarters, Rome 2000 – Centro J. L. Borges, Buenos Aires 2000 – Galleria Pavillion, Córdoba 2003 – Palazzo dei Normanni, Palermo 2005 – Loggiato San Bartolomeo, Palermo 2011 – Convento del Carmine, Marsala Group Exhibitions 1947 – Art Club, Rome 1948 – Art Club, Rome 1952 – 26° Venice Biennale, Venice 1954 – 27° Venice Biennale, Venice 1959 – Rome Quadriennale, Rome 1965 – Rome Quadriennale, Rome 1978 – 38° Venice Biennale, Venice 1982 – FIAC Grand Palais, Paris 1986 – Rome Quadriennale, Rome 1992 – Rome Quadriennale, Rome 2012 – Ulisse Gallery, Rome, Italy