She was born in 1941 in Milan, the city where she died on 23 April 2024 at the age of 82 Fausta Squatriti, the internationally renowned Italian artist who, between visual arts and writing, has dealt with themes not only of aesthetic and creative but also philosophical interest, narrating them poetically and critically within her works. Since 1964, when he was only 23 years old, was noticed by the gallery owner Pierre Lundholm who took her to exhibit in Stockholm and then continued with numerous other exhibitions abroad, becoming part of the collections (for example) of the Moderna Musset in Stockholm, of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art in Moscow, of the Musée d’Orsay and the Center Pompidou in Paris, the Stedelijk Museum of Modern Art in Amsterdam, the Kaiser Wilhelm Museum in Krefeld. In Italy, from the 70s to today, his work is presented in Milan, at the Naviglio and by Marconi, Mudima, Assab One, and in Venice, Bologna, Genoa, Naples. In the 1980s she was also invited to numerous international graphics biennials in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Sweden, Belgium, and she won two prizes at the International Print Biennial in San Francisco. Squatriti was also a teacherteaching at the Academy of Fine Arts of Carrara, Venice and Milan and was a visiting professor at the University at Manoa, in Honolulu, in Mons. In 1986 she was also curator of Art and science: color at the Venice Biennale and written about her by, among others, Giulio Carlo Argan, Gillo Dorfles, Lea Vergine, but also Mario Cresci, Emilio Isgrò and Théodore Köenig. The funeral will be held in Milan on Friday 26 April at 11am at the Basilica of Sant’Ambrogio.
Fausta Squatriti art editor
Since 1964, together with Sergio Tosi, Squatriti began his publishing activity by inaugurating a then new genre, that of multiples and artist’s books, creating editions and unique pieces with artists such as Man Ray, Max Ernst, Fontana, Manzù, Matta, Gio Pomodoro, Baj, Alviani, Marotta , Pascali, Nevelson, Twombly, Bury, Raysse, Hamilton, Tilson, Jean Tinguely, Niki de Saint-Phalle. In 1975 the collaboration with Tosi e. ended in 1980 the artist independently resumed the publication of numbered editions and multiples, working with Michel Seuphor, Pavel Mansouroff and Anni Albers. In particular, the latter two will then be included in the EXACTA portfolio – the most important edition of Fausta Squatriti and in which Getulio Alviani initially also participates -, in which 54 graphics by the masters of international abstract geometric research are collected. Also in the 60s, between 1967 and 1970curates the catalogues, books and posters of the gallery owner’s exhibitions Alexander Iolas, between New York, Paris, Geneva, Milan, Madrid, Athens and Turin. Furthermore, her interest in poetry led her to create MARBLE NEMO. The notebooks of Vacciago, a series of poetic texts translated from English and French with Lina Angioletti, to which she adds the original graphics of an always different artist.
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Fausta Squatriti poet and storyteller (and set designer)
Since 1977 the artist has published with Il Laboratorio delle Arti, Vanni Scheiwiller, Manni, Book, Testuale, Tracce, Il Laboratorio di Nola and in numerous sector magazines (the most recent collection of poems is Forbidden to enterpublished in 2013 by La Vita Felice). For her verses she was awarded the Eugenio Montale Prize in 1988 for the unpublished and in 2009 the poetry prize Scrivere donna, while in 2017 he published the collection Olio Santo for New Press Edizioni. Regarding prose, however, you published in 1994 The villeggiatura, or sentimental breviary for Terre del Fuoco publisher, Cramps for Abramo Editore in 2006 e The Cana for Puntoacapo editrice in 2015. Furthermore, in 1992, he founded the magazine Kiliagono with Gaetano Delli Santi with editions All’Insegna del Pesce d’Oro which continued until 1995. Among numerous other activities, finally, in 1997 he founded the Teatro dell’autore on stage with Francesco Leonetti, with which he made his debut at the Mudima Foundation in Milan and then continued at Ricercare (Reggio Emilia) and at the Venice Word Festival and at the Teatri ’90 review at the Rotonda della Besana in Milan). In 2002 he created the stage image for The stillest represented at the Mains d’oeuvre theater in Paris, while in 2012 he edited the texts and created the props for Time for fresh airfor the Teatro delle Selve company on Lake Orta.
Caterina Angelucci
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