Giovanni Alicò was born in Catania in 1906. A self-taught painter, his approach to art is free from constraints or preconstructed binaries. In 1935 he settled first in Naples then in Milan. In 1942 he was present with a work at the XXIII Venice Biennale,and in the same year, he held his first solo exhibition at the Tornabuoni Gallery in Florence. There followed,between 1948 and 1953, six years of activity in Argentina,with three solo shows in Buenos Aires and many participations in group shows in various national salons in the cities of La Rioja, Santa Fè, Mendoza and Rosario. Returning to Italy, from the mid-1950s and throughout the following decade several were his solo shows in Catania, Milan, Rome and Como. He was Premio Suzzara in 1...