Italo Scanga
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Italo Scanga Italian
-born American artist.
to Giuseppe and Serafina Ziccarelli, youngest of four children: Carolina, Mafalda and Nicolino.
ist, neo-Expressionist and neo-Cubist multimedia artist
who made sculptures of ordinary objects and created prints, glass and ceramic works.
Italy
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-born American artist.
Biography
Born in Lago, CalabriaCalabria
Calabria , in antiquity known as Bruttium, is a region in southern Italy, south of Naples, located at the "toe" of the Italian Peninsula. The capital city of Calabria is Catanzaro....
to Giuseppe and Serafina Ziccarelli, youngest of four children: Carolina, Mafalda and Nicolino.
About his work
Italo Scanga was an innovative neo-DadaNeo-Dada
Neo-Dada is a label applied primarily to audio and visual art that has similarities in method or intent to earlier Dada artwork. It is the foundation of Fluxus, Pop Art and Nouveau réalisme. Neo-Dada is exemplified by its use of modern materials, popular imagery, and absurdist contrast...
ist, neo-Expressionist and neo-Cubist multimedia artist
Multimedia artist
Multimedia artists are contemporary artists who use a wide range of media to communicate their art. Multimedia art includes, by definition, more than one medium, therefore multimedia artists use visual art in combination with sound art, moving images and other media...
who made sculptures of ordinary objects and created prints, glass and ceramic works.
Permanent collections
- Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria
- Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
- Arizona State University Art Museum, Nelson Fine Arts Center, Tempe, AZ
- The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
- Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
- Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL
- Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
- Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH
- Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
- Fogg Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
- Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
- Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
- Mingei International Museum, San Diego, CA
- Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, CA
- The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
- Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
- The Oakland Museum of California, Oakland CA
- Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
- Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
- Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
- San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA
- Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
- Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago Museum, Chicago, IL
- Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH
- University of Wisconsin Hospitals & Clinics, Madison, WI
- Utah State University, Logan, UT
- Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
- Yale University, New Haven, CT