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Giovanni Manganelli was born on June 5, 1942 in San Giovanni in Persiceto, close to Bologna. He began his studies at the Convitto Nazionale Cicognini, the same school as D'Annunzio and Curzio Malaparte, but moved at a young age to London for five years where he earned a degree in film direction.
After his return to Italy in the seventies, he worked in Rome as assistant director to the young emerging filmmakers engaged in current social issues. In the following decade, he co-wrote the scripts of many comedies starring actors such as Paolo Villaggio, Renato Pozzetto and Adriano Celentano. In the beginning of the eighties, Manganelli worked at RAI as a TV writer.
In the meantime, he developed an active interest in sculpturing, an old passion of his. He moved to Tuscany to a country house close to Pietrasanta, the town of art where he still lives and works. At the end of the decade, when his beloved daughter Giulia was born, he made the decision to exclusively dedicate his work to sculpturing.
He has always had a preference for vast spaces to display his work. Among his most notable pieces are la Nuotatrice - a large dimension sculpture in pink Gallura granite created for the villa of fashion designer Krizia in Punta Volpe in Sardinia, and the big Tuffatrice, a masterpiece in white Greek marble installed in Piazza delle Ginestre in Portorotondo.
His works have also been installed in many headquarters of prestigious Italian companies including a black Markina marble Crocodile at Tod's,and a Noutatrice in black Tanzania granite at Barilla. |
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