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Edoardo Villa (Edoardo Daniele Villa) was born on 31 May, 1915 in Bergamo, Italy, is a South African sculptor. Discover Edoardo Villa's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 95 years old?

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Age 95 years old
Zodiac Sign Gemini
Born 31 May 1915
Birthday 31 May
Birthplace Bergamo, Italy
Date of death 1 May, 2011
Died Place Johannesburg, South Africa
Nationality Italy

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1915

Edoardo Daniele Villa (1915–2011) was a notable South African sculptor of Italian descent who worked primarily in steel, and bronze.

Villa was born in Bergamo, Italy and he studied at the Andrea Fontini Art School.

1937

In 1937 due to a shortage in work Edoardo Villa volunteered for the Italian Army and studied to become and officer.

He went to Spain as part of the Italian Army to take part in the Spanish Civil War but the war ended before he was deployed.

He was qualified as a Captain and was recalled to serve in the World War II.

1940

By 1940 he was posted to North Africa, On 9 December 1940 he was captured the night before the Battle of Sidi Barrani on a scouting mission where he was injured and captured by the English.

1941

In 1941 he was shipped to South Africa where he then spent the next four years at the Zonderwater prisoner of war camp.

Zonderwater was opened in February 1941 and by the end of 1942 and held 63 000 prisoners under the care of Colonel H.F. Prinsloo whose head was later sculpted in bronze by Villa for the military museum.

After his release, Villa remained in South Africa where he continued his vocation as a sculptor.

Villa started work with conventional heads and figures and changed to work on stylized abstractions.

His work includes abstract explanations of the human condition but retains some figurative concepts.

Villa's work has a strong cross-cultural synthesis which involves the Italian and the African.

It is clearly informed by the cubism of Picasso (who had discovered African art in Paris at the Trocadero).

Villa gave an interview in which he said, “After being a prisoner of war in South Africa I decided to stay and start my career because of the opportunities available for the youth, the ‘open space’ as opposed to the ‘closed’ life of a continental.

Everything in Europe I felt had been done, questioned and exhausted.

Here, in Africa, I felt I had the opportunity to explore ... If anything could sum up my fundamental concern in art, it is that of the human and the individual – the human condition ….

Museums are marvellous but human participation, physical proximity and tactile engagement are more important''.

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1950

Villa's sculpture developed further during the 1950s, when the use of cut steel and bronze.

At this time he also taught at the Polly Art Centre in Johannesburg.

1952

The Polly Art Centre was founded as an adult education institution; in 1952 it was converted into an art and exhibition centre.

1957

Edoardo Villa represented South Africa at the Venice Biennale on five occasions and he has received awards at the São Paulo Biennales of 1957 and 1959.

He has exhibited in over a hundred shows in Italy, Europe, England, Israel, South America, Africa and the United States.

1960

Until its closure in 1960, it was the only place – apart from a few private galleries – where black artists in Johannesburg could pursue their art and show their works.

1961

In 1961, along with Cecil Skotnes, Cecily Sash, Giuseppe Cattaneo, and Sydney Kumalo, Villa made up the artist group “Amadlozi” (Zulu for “ancestors”) for the conscious appropriation of African sculptural traditions.

Villa's work includes larger than life steel installations, such as Reclining Figure in Pieter Roos Park, Johannesburg.

1984

This work was intended as a play statue for children, paid for by Anglo American, selected by the Parktown and Westcliffe Heritage Trust and donated to the City of Johannesburg and unveiled by the Deputy Mayor of Johannesburg Councillor C.E. Fabel on 8 September 1984.

1994

In 1994/1995 Villa donated 140 small and 10 large works to the University of Pretoria.

1995

On 31 May 1995, to celebrate the artist's 80th birthday, the Edoardo Villa Museum was officially opened at the University of Pretoria, South Africa.

Villa lived and worked at his home in Johannesburg, He was a friend of the artist and art collector, Vittorino Meneghelli, the author Jillian Becker and the architect Monty Sack.

2011

Villa died in hospital on 1 May 2011 at age 95.