Vittorio Tolu

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Vittorio Tolu was born in Atzara (Sardinia) in 1937 and he now lives and works in Florence. Since he was very young, between 1957 and 1958, he got involved with the avant-guard movements which were at the time dominated by the research of the informal. So he started to be a regular at the Numero Gallery in Florence and to participate, invited by Fiamma Vigo, to a few collective and personal exhibitions in Italy and abroad. In 1967 he contributed with artists from various cities to forming the group “Set di Numero”, whose work was mainly characterized by subscribing to a space-object abstractism. Between 1969 and 1970 he was a part of the group “F1” in Florence. In 1972 he won the first “Joan Mirò” International Prize in Barcelona. From 1969 to 1972 he produced two books - Megalopolis and Planet & extra-planet - with a geometric-conceptual inspiration; from this moment on he started to make books-object and books-sculpture, many of which were on exhibit at Libri & Oggetti, a personal exhibition. 1965-1994 at the Tribuna Dantesca of the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze. During the seventies he devoted himself mostly to minimalist-conceptual painting, but later he regained a sort of figurativeness marked by archetypical echos and surreal veins and devoted himself completely to sculpture, also producing jewelry made with a great variety of materials; in 2001 he took part to the exhibitions The art of jewel and the artistic jewel from 1900 to now (Museo degli Argenti di Palazzo Pitti) and The image and the word. Piero Santi and art in Florence from 1950 to 1975 (Musei Civici di San Gimignano).

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