Giuliano Vangi

Giuliano Vangi was born in 1931 in Barberino di Mugello and currently lives and works in Pesaro. After studying at the Art Institute of Florence, where he was a pupil of Bruno Innocenti, he became a teacher at the Art Institutes of Pesaro and Cantù. From 1959 to 1962, he moved to Brazil, where he focused on abstract studies, working with crystals and metals such as iron and steel. Upon his return to Italy during the Cold War, he initially settled in Varese and then in Pesaro. In addition to creating religious works, he also produced pieces—always unique—where the idea of humanity, with its anxieties and fears, takes shape. It is as if the artist suddenly decided to expose the human condition and narrate the life of everyday people. In the Iannaccone collection, there are two sculptures that have always been displayed in the private residence of the collector: a standing nude male figure created in 1981 from a nickel and copper alloy, which does not celebrate the beauty of an athletic body as in the past, but rather pays tribute to simply being human, with all its weaknesses and anxieties; and Il Nodo (The Knot) from 1992, a bronze statue depicting a man and a woman holding hands as they run toward their future, hinting at a happiness that could be everlasting.