Guglielmo Achille Cavellini [SEP] date of birth
Guglielmo Achille Cavellini
Guglielmo Achille Cavellini (11 September 1914 – 20 November 1990), also known as GAC, was an Italian artist and art collector. After an initial activity as a painter, in the 1940s and 1950s he became one of the major collectors of contemporary Italian abstract art, developing a deep relationship of patronage and friendship with the artists. This experience has its pinnacle in the exhibition "Modern painters of the Cavellini collection" at the National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome in 1957. In the 1960s Cavellini
instance in 2008 at the Florence Lynch Gallery di New York, in 2013 in the Santa Giulia Museum in Brescia as part of "Novecento mai visto", curated by Elena Lucchesi Ragni, Paolo Bolpagni, Enrico De Pascale and Maurizio Mondini, then again in New York at the Lynch Tham gallery. In 2008 Monia Marchionni published the book "The self-historicization of Guglielmo Achille Cavellini", analyzing Cavellini's art and history. In 2014, for the centennial of Cavellini's birth, there were exhibitions of Cavellini's artworks