Michele Cascella - Trees

After carrying out his first artistic activities under the guidance of his father Basilio, in 1907, together with his brother Tommaso, Cascella held his first personal exhibition in the rooms of the Famiglia Artistica Milanese.

In 1909, again with his brother Tommaso, he organized an exhibition at the Galerie Druet in Paris, participating in the Salon d'Automne that same year. In 1911, he organized an exhibition of pastel drawings in the foyer of the Teatro dell'Opera in Rome. Between 1914 and 1915, he contributed drawings and graphic illustrations to La Grande Illustrazione, published by his father Basilio, exhibiting in 1917 at the Salone dell'Associazione della Stampa and at the Galleria Centrale d'Arte in Milan. He fought in the First World War.

In Rome, in 1919, he held a solo exhibition at the Galleria Bragaglia and met Carlo Carrà there, who later agreed to move the exhibition to Milan's Galleria Lidel. In 1920, he settled permanently in Milan, where he enthusiastically frequented the poet Clemente Rebora, from whom he later confessed to drawing inspiration for some of his works.

From 1928 to 1932 he traveled between Italy and Paris, where, in 1937, he was awarded the gold medal at the International Exhibition. In 1938, he designed the sets for the opera Margherita da Cortona, performed at La Scala.

From 1928 to 1942 he was present at all editions of the Venice Art Biennale, and in the 1948 edition he had a personal room.

From 1938, he lived in Portofino, which became a source of inspiration for his later works. Between 1937 and 1938, he created a large mosaic in the new Messina Marittima station, depicting Mussolini, during a visit to Palermo, "elevating Sicily to the honor of being the center of the Empire."

In the 1950s, he created a series of approximately 40 drawings for the Italian ceramics company in Laveno, titled "Italy as Seen by Michele Cascella." These were used to decorate very important tableware services produced by the Laveno factory.

After the Second World War, his exhibitions abroad became more frequent: Paris (in the 1950s and 1960s), but also South America (especially Buenos Aires and Montevideo) and the United States. He settled in the United States, specifically in California, for long periods, alternating between stays in Italy (he lived for several years in the countryside near Colle Val d'Elsa) and Europe. His most popular subjects were flowers, wheat fields and poppies, the landscapes of Abruzzo and Portofino. The anthological exhibitions of this period were significant.

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