Lucia Carradori
“The chameleon painter".
Lucia Carradori (Vigodarzere, (PD) 1930-Alessandria 2013) was an Italian paintress.
Biography
Lucia Carradori (Vigodarzere, (PD) 1930-Alessandria 2013) was an Italian paintress.
Biography
The Paintress was born in Vigodarzere, in the countryside of Padua, daughter of Ernesto Zambolin and Maria Maddalena Squizzato, in a family of humble origins. Lucia was the oldest of 10 brothers and sisters.
Before continuing, it is necessary to make a proper statement: as you can easily deduce, the real name of the paintress was Lucia Zambolin, but upon her own request, once married, she chose to use the surname of her husband Angelo Carradori in all and for everything, even to sign her works. The feeling is, as if the artist wanted to set aside her last name, to forget her sad childhood. As we will see later, the extravagant artist, many years later, will change her mind again and will sign her works only with the name (Lucia)! Very few paintings are without signature or signed in the back of the canvas, as they used to do sometimes many great artists.
Lucia has spent a childhood and adolescence of hardship, having to look after the younger brothers and even many times humbled by begging for charity.
That's why she could barely finish elementary school.
However, Lucia's painting talents, which were above the average, did not go unnoticed by the teachers, who bought indeed the materials and colors needed to keep her work at home. They even tried to persuade (without success) the father to make her attend an academy of fine arts in Padua.
In the few spare moments that her sleazy life offered and during the night, the unhappy little girl rushed headlond into her colours and she drew.. she drew.. more and more and always better.
In this regard, it can be said with certainty that the future artist did her first steps towards art
by herself and completely self-taught!
Life and career.
Lucia wanted to change her life, at the age of 19 she met and fell in love with her future husband Angelo, a financier who often moved on for work: perfect for her, the right person at the right time. She did not hesitate for a minute to the first transfer of Angelo to "escape" with him, with the disappointment of her parents, destination San Salvatore Monferrato (AL), Piedmont.
Right after they married and the first daughter (Mirella) was born at the hospital of Alessandria.
The paintress later did extra work to afford to buy canvases, plywoods, brushes, oil and colors, so that she finally could express herself being dedicated to her passion: the Painting.
In the following years she attended several cultural circles for painters of the province of Alessandria, where she met many artists of the area.
So her first small exhibitions in collective started, they took place in the hall of some municipalities, but above all in the famous "on the road" exhibitions.
In one of these exhibitions, the artistic fate of the painter changed radically within a short time; in fact, her works were noted by the "Globetrotter" painter Giovanni Balansino, who soon became his artistic master.
The Master (so she always called him as a sign of respect and admiration) Giovanni Balansino was impressed by the skill of Lucia, but above all from the way she easily changes from a style of painting to the other, so that he gave her the nice nickname "the paintress chameleon".
The artistic current preferred by the paintress was without doubt "the Christian art" with essentially religious characteristics. There are still now donations of paintings in some churches of Alessandria.
The other styles performed by Lucia were: the naive naturally, the expressionism, the impressionism, the figurative one and, after the teachings of Master Giovanni Balansino, the death natures and the landscapes.
After several episodes of life, presumably in the rule , (exhibitions in various galleries in Northern Italy, the change of work of the husband, the acquisition of the “ third media” in evening school, the birth of the second son Diego after a short residence change to Valenza Po)..the '50s went by. In 1961 the paintress moved definitively to Alessandria.
The collaboration with Master Balansino (now also a great friend of the family) continued in harmony up to the point that, the Master himself, once verified that his pupil had also assimilated
the pictorial techniques of the landscapes and still lifes, persuaded her to open a personal permanent gallery art in Alessandria.
This gallery, which was open for about 20 years, gave a lot of satisfaction to the paintress, both in terms of sales and fame.
At the same time, some paintings of the paintress were shown in art galleries of many cities:
Milan, Como,Bergamo, Pavia, Vigevano, Cuneo, Mondivì, Biella, Alba, Voghera, Tortona, Novara, Borgomanero, Casale Monferrato, Novi Ligure, Savona, Varazze, Imperia, Alassio, Portofino, Verona, Padova, Treviso, Rovereto, Iesolo, Parma, Bologna, Reggio Emilia, Firenze, Roma and others..
They said about her:
Many art critics of the epoch of the calibre of Giorgio G. D'Ilario, Lino Lazzari, Elia Santoro, Leonardo Borgese etc. wrote about her:
Lucia Carradori
There are people who keep for a long time - like the bud of a flower destined to burst into all its graceful majesty - potential ancestral artistic virtuosity brooded a long time, visceral, slowly planned with attempts of a creative anxiety that doesn't know discontents and disappointments. The fruits of figurative art can rebound from childhood as it happened for Lucia Carradori, Alexandrian artist who has now reached her full artistic maturity exploded with the encouragement of her master Giovanni Balansino.
Giorgio G. D ' Ilario
Lucia Carradori exposes her works after a hard-earned training, but that has not failed to bear fruit. Observers from this exhibition will be positively impressed. The Artist deserves it and, on my part there is a particular, sincere sense of friendship that lasts for a long time now. Also because better works will come as a successful completion of the whole beautiful quality that Lucia Carradori has.
There are people who keep for a long time - like the bud of a flower destined to burst into all its graceful majesty - potential ancestral artistic virtuosity brooded a long time, visceral, slowly planned with attempts of a creative anxiety that doesn't know discontents and disappointments. The fruits of figurative art can rebound from childhood as it happened for Lucia Carradori, Alexandrian artist who has now reached her full artistic maturity exploded with the encouragement of her master Giovanni Balansino.
Giorgio G. D ' Ilario
Lucia Carradori exposes her works after a hard-earned training, but that has not failed to bear fruit. Observers from this exhibition will be positively impressed. The Artist deserves it and, on my part there is a particular, sincere sense of friendship that lasts for a long time now. Also because better works will come as a successful completion of the whole beautiful quality that Lucia Carradori has.
Lino Lazzari
Lucia Carradori: to know her it is necessary to look into her depth, but who is she finally, an instinctive person, an unpredictable harmony of good or a mixture of haunted invitations to the distruction? She is all this, but also the opposite of all this. So also the attempt to place her inspiration in a painting assumes an exact meaning. It is not Ligabue who directs her but the wish of upsetting a methodology of kneading with unforeseeable touches all that her master Giovanni Balansino has lavished on her and inculcated into her mind. Balansino had been the catalyst element and without doubt his irritability and his spontaneity have remarkably been useful to the training of the paintress and the creation of her personality. Now, however, Lucia Carradori is free to express herself by weighing those who are both practical and aesthetic tastes of an art that does not have for her boundaries neither limitations nor inhibition. Emotions and sensations compose, in this woman, a picture that from a human and poetic point of view gives the exact perception that nothing is confinable in art, when the strong personality imposes itself or the insatiable spirit wants to be free for flights without horizons.
Elia Santoro
Personal and collective exhibitions.
Lucia Carradori: to know her it is necessary to look into her depth, but who is she finally, an instinctive person, an unpredictable harmony of good or a mixture of haunted invitations to the distruction? She is all this, but also the opposite of all this. So also the attempt to place her inspiration in a painting assumes an exact meaning. It is not Ligabue who directs her but the wish of upsetting a methodology of kneading with unforeseeable touches all that her master Giovanni Balansino has lavished on her and inculcated into her mind. Balansino had been the catalyst element and without doubt his irritability and his spontaneity have remarkably been useful to the training of the paintress and the creation of her personality. Now, however, Lucia Carradori is free to express herself by weighing those who are both practical and aesthetic tastes of an art that does not have for her boundaries neither limitations nor inhibition. Emotions and sensations compose, in this woman, a picture that from a human and poetic point of view gives the exact perception that nothing is confinable in art, when the strong personality imposes itself or the insatiable spirit wants to be free for flights without horizons.
Elia Santoro
Personal and collective exhibitions.
Lucia
Carradori has participated in many collective exhibitions and several
personal exhibitions with great satisfaction and many results. Some
of her works are now exhibited in several galleries. Sculptural and
pictorial works. The Artist lives and works in Alessandria.
Biography II part
Early in the years 80s, unfortunately a long series of misadventures were ruthless on the life of the paintress. While her son Diego was unwinding the military service and he was therefore far away from home, thieves, taking advantage also of the temporary absence of Lucia and her husband, they robbed in the same day the house, where they stole all valuables, money, gold, affective memories etc.. and the gallery, carrying almost all the paintings.
Early in the years 80s, unfortunately a long series of misadventures were ruthless on the life of the paintress. While her son Diego was unwinding the military service and he was therefore far away from home, thieves, taking advantage also of the temporary absence of Lucia and her husband, they robbed in the same day the house, where they stole all valuables, money, gold, affective memories etc.. and the gallery, carrying almost all the paintings.
This was a terrible blow for Lucia who had a strong
nervous breakdown with depression that forced her to stay at the
hospital. From that day she was no longer the same person, she had to
take anti-depressant medicaments, she left the art gallery and she
almost did not go out any more of home. At the same time, master
Balansino ended his decennial work with the art gallery "LA
MAGGIOLINA" of Alessandria, with the result that the visits in
Alessandria (accomplice also the depression of the student), reduced
quickly before running out. Despite all, Lucia continued to paint
drawings of excellent workmanship, even though she did not do any
more exhibitions. From that moment she signed her paintings only with
"Lucia", a half-signature, broken, like his life!
The following years were marked by the sudden death of master Balansino in 1986, by a serious ischemic attack of her husband in 1987 and in 1991 by the death for septicemia of her daughter Mirella at only 41 years!
The son Diego got married, but he continued to take care of his parents with the help of the competent social and health services, checking them daily.
In 1997, Lucia's husband had a second violent ischemic attack that forced him into a wheelchair, and after a short time to the admission in a rest house because the situation became unmanageable at home.
Lucia was alone at home, but still under control of her son. She spent her time next to her beloved husband (she visited him regularly several times a week).. and painting, always the most beautiful pictures.
Lucia's health with the time got worse: a chronic atrial fibrillation and a fracture to the vertebrae as a result of a fall were added to the depression, these weakened her further and gave her the final blow forcing her to bed for a long time.
As it was not enough, in March 2007, the husband Angelo died suddenly following pneumonia.
The paintress noticed, clearly, that she could not do it alone and took the decision, immediately after her husband's death, to enter a home of rest. She didn't paint any more. During her stay, her conditions were getting worse inexorably and on 26 February 2013, after a series of pneumonia ab ingestis, she died at the hospital of Alessandria.
The following years were marked by the sudden death of master Balansino in 1986, by a serious ischemic attack of her husband in 1987 and in 1991 by the death for septicemia of her daughter Mirella at only 41 years!
The son Diego got married, but he continued to take care of his parents with the help of the competent social and health services, checking them daily.
In 1997, Lucia's husband had a second violent ischemic attack that forced him into a wheelchair, and after a short time to the admission in a rest house because the situation became unmanageable at home.
Lucia was alone at home, but still under control of her son. She spent her time next to her beloved husband (she visited him regularly several times a week).. and painting, always the most beautiful pictures.
Lucia's health with the time got worse: a chronic atrial fibrillation and a fracture to the vertebrae as a result of a fall were added to the depression, these weakened her further and gave her the final blow forcing her to bed for a long time.
As it was not enough, in March 2007, the husband Angelo died suddenly following pneumonia.
The paintress noticed, clearly, that she could not do it alone and took the decision, immediately after her husband's death, to enter a home of rest. She didn't paint any more. During her stay, her conditions were getting worse inexorably and on 26 February 2013, after a series of pneumonia ab ingestis, she died at the hospital of Alessandria.
Biography drafted by the son Diego
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works, please contact her son Diego via cell phone 334.
733. 68. 04 Email : radicemonica@aol.de Interested person of other nathionalities are asked to
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