MARIO BROGLIOPiacenza, 1891 - San Michele di Moriano, 1948 Memories, 1926 Oil on canvas, 45 x 52 cm Signed lower left and on the back: Mario BroglioPhoto-certificate by Romeo LucchesePhoto-certificate by Enrico Crispolti, 1993BIOGRAPHY:He studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome, and in his youth he traveled through Europe making various literary and artistic experiences. He made his debut in Rome in the context of the Secessions; scarce testimonies remain of this period, which serve to underline even more the singularity of the detachment with subsequent experiences. Between 1918 and '23 he founded and directed the magazine "Valori Plastici" and also organized the group's exhibition activities in Germany and Italy. Through the magazine he elaborates a vast program of redefining the values ​​of the past, taking sides in defense of metaphysics, up to the study of the fifteenth century and the Italian "primitives". With Flaminio Martellotti and Vittorio E. Barbaroux he is the creator of the "Valori Plastici" collection, which imposes the works of de Chirico, Carrà , Morandi, Martini. Together with his wife Edita, after the end of the magazine, he starts the important publishing house that publishes fundamental works such as Roberto Longhi's "Piero della Francesca" and Carrà 's "Giotto". His action as a man of culture is in some respects similar to that of his painting: will to return to order; openness to Europe (the influence it had on the new objectivity, for example); strong references to the museum. He exhibits groups of works at the II and III Quadrennial in Rome (1935 and '39); the 25th Venice Biennale dedicates a posthumous exhibition to him, presented by Carlo Carrà (1950). His works show a search for smooth politeness of the pictorial material, up to the rigorous choice of objects for still lifes, in which reflections of the analogous experiences carried out in painting by his wife Edita, who, endowed with greater pictorial qualities, often intervene realization of his paintings.BIBLIOGRAPHY: C. Carrà , Mario Broglio, in catalog XXV Biennale, Venice 1950; P. Fossati, Plastic Values ​​1918-1922, Turin 1981; M. Quesada, card in cat. Rome 1934, Modena 1986; Catalog of the Roman school exhibition, edited by M. Fagiolo, V. Rivosecchi, collaboration with F. Morelli, Milan 1988; Magic Realism, exhibition catalog, edited by M. Fagiolo, V. Rivosecchi, documentary appendix edited by F. R. Morelli, Verona, Milan 1988-89. Very good conditionFrame, without glass