Paolo Terdich (born 1960) is an Italian painter. A contemporary, from hyperrealism to dream, far from academic formalisms, he deals with the national civil commemoration, the National Memorial Day of the Exiles and Foibe.radioradicale.it, Paolo Terdich, in memory of the foibe and the Julian-Dalmatian exodus.
Biography Terdich was born in 1960Getty Vocabulary Program rules, Terdich, Paolo, Italian painter, born 1960. in Piacenza. He was born to a family from Rijeka, overwhelmed in the post-war period by the Istrian–Dalmatian exodus, a historical event also known as the Istrian exodus.agenziacult.it, Foibe: the exhibition of Paolo Terdich, artist son of exiles, inaugurated at the Chamber. His highly expressive, landscape-based, intimate and sentimental pictorial path has emerged over time, becoming known especially since the 2000s, through exhibitions at the Italian Cultural Institute in Cairo, in 2002 at the Town Hall of Sauze d'Oulx, in 2004 in Holland at the American Women Cultural Association and from 2008 to 2009 in Piacenza in Atelier d'Arte in 2012.artribune.com, exhibitions, 2012. and at the Spazio Rosso Tiziano in 2015 and 2018.exibart.com, mostra Spazio Rosso Tiziano, 2015.exhibitions Spazio Tiziano, 2018. Since 2010, Terdich has held several solo exhibitions abroad, from the italian Embassy in Nigeria, to the solo exhibitions in Berlin in 2019 and New York City in 2022, and was subsequently invited to the LIX Venice Biennale 2022 national pavilion of Grenada.ilnuovogiornale.it, Paolo Terdich, the painter of water, at the Venice Biennale. The essays were edited by Paolo Levi, Elisa Manzoni, Daniele Radini Tedeschi, Alfredo Pasolino and Alberto Moioli.
Since 2023 he has been presenting a long-considered artistic project, the Ricordo delle Foibe, Julian-Dalmatian exodus, focusing on figurative art in contemporary aesthetics existing in allegorical context with the new generations and to pursue a tribute to lived memory, with a first exhibition in Palazzo Galli, Sala Panini of Banca di Piacenza in 2024.piacenzasera.it, Evening in memory of the foibe and the Julian-Dalmatian exodus, 2024. Exhibits in Rometurismoroma.it, Exodus exhibition to not forge. at the exhibition Exodus, lest we forget, in the Sala del Cenacolo of the Vicolo Valdina Complex of the Chamber of Deputies (Italy) in February 2025, an event desired by Lorenzo Fontana,presidente.camera.it, Foibe, a Montecitorio la mostra di Paolo Terdich, artista figlio di un esule. Introduce Fontana, 2025. President of the Chamber of Deputies. The exhibition was curated by the Paolo Salvati Archive,exibart.com, Archivio Paolo Salvati, events. with the presentation of Federico Molliconehttps://www.mollicone.it/tag/terdich/, Federico Mollicone archivi, Paolo Terdich, exibition. and an essay by Alberto Moioli.Paolo Terdich, ESODO, per non dimenticare, Camera dei deputati, Alberto Moioli, Federico Mollicone, 2025.ilmiogiornale.net, Esodo e foibe: la mostra del piacentino Paolo Terdich alla Camera dei deputati.agenziavista.it, Giorno del Ricordo, mostra di Paolo Terdich “Esodo” a Montecitorio.
Bibliography Alberto Moioli, Lorenzo Fontana, Esodo, personal exhibition by Paolo Terdich, Roma, Editions of Italian Modern and Contemporary Art Archives, English and French languages, 2025. Opac sbn, Esodo: per non dimenticare in occasione del Giorno del Ricordo delle foibe e dell'esodo giuliano-dalmata: Paolo Terdich exhibition: Last Supper Room, Vicolo Valdina Complex, Chamber of Deputies, Rome, 2025. Alberto Moioli, Enciclopedia d'Arte Italiana, Catalogo Generale Artisti dal Novecento ad oggi, Milan, 2025. Stefania Pieralice, Atlante dell'Arte Contemporanea, Edizioni Giunti, 2024, Milan. Opac Sbn, Atlante dell'Arte Contemporanea, 2024. Alberto Moioli, personal exhibition by Paolo Terdich, AQUA, Ventura Gallery, New York, 2022, Editions of Italian Modern and Contemporary Art Archives, Roma. Catalogo d'Arte Moderna n.50, Gli Artisti Italiani dal Primo Novecento ad Oggi, 2021, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, Milan. Catalogo d'Arte Moderna n.49, Gli Artisti Italiani dal Primo Novecento ad Oggi, 2020, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, Milan. Catalogo d'Arte Moderna n.48, Gli Artisti Italiani dal Primo Novecento ad Oggi, 2019, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, Milan. Alberto Moioli, Patrizia Mazzei, Susanna Gualazzini, personal exhibition by Paolo Terdich, Due mondi a confronto, Von Zeidler Art Gallery, Berlin, 2019, Editions of Italian Modern and Contemporary Art Archives. Catalog Paintings by Contemporary Artists, 2012, Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco. International Contemporary Artists Volume V, 2012, Eve Lemonidou; First Edition. Daniele Radini Tedeschi, L'Esausta Clessidra, 2011, Editions of Rosa dei Venti.Opac sbn, L'Esausta Clessidra, 2011. Catalogo d'Arte Moderna n.41, Gli Artisti Italiani dal Primo Novecento ad Oggi, 2005, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, Milan. Opac sbn, Catalogo d'Arte Moderna, Gli Artisti Italiani dal Primo Novecento ad Oggi, n.41, 2005.
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Paolo Terdich on Artribune.com Paolo Terdich on Exibart.com