Gaetano Carboni

Gaetano Carboni was born in Ascoli Piceno in 1928. He began his apprenticeship in his home city and completed his artistic training in Roma. After his first figurative works between the 1940s and 1950s, in the 1960s he arrived at a "Totemico onirico" symbolism. He took part in several editions of the Premio Marche, including the Premio Marche 1963/64, Premio Marche 67/68, Premio Marche 1990/91 and, most recently, 2021/22; the Premio Antifiorino in Firenze; the Premio Salvi in Sassoferrato (1965); the exhibition "il libro d'artista delle Marche" at the Museo della Carta, in the Miliani paper mills in Fabriano; the Premio Michetti in Francavilla a Mare (1967) and the 49th Premio Michetti (1997); the XV Premio "Castello Svevo" in Termoli (1970); the Premio Sironi in Sassari (1971/72); and the XXV and XXXIII Premio Vasto (1992 and 2000). He was invited to the Biennale Nazionale di Grafica Silarte in Roma in 1974. He exhibited at the XIII Quadriennale di Roma, at the Università Cattolica in Milano, and at the Fondazione Umberto Mastroianni in Arpino (FR). He took part in "In Opera 2010 – Sulle orme di Padre Matteo Ricci" in Macerata, and three retrospective exhibitions were devoted to him by the critic Floriano De Santi: at the FIAT branch in Pescara, at the Civica Galleria d'Arte Contemporanea in Ascoli Piceno, and at the Galleria d'Arte Contemporanea Osvaldo Licini in Ascoli Piceno. A retrospective was also held at the Palazzo dei Priori in