Novello Finotti

Novello Finotti was born in Verona in 1939. He works and lives in Sommacampagna (VR) and in Pietrasanta (LU). In 1959 he exhibited at the Third International Competition of Bronzetto in Padua.

In 1966 a group of his works was exhibited at La Biennale Internazionale in Venice and in 1984 he was assigned a personal room. Among his personal exhibitions the following ones are noteworthy: at Jackson Iolas Gallery in New York in 1977, in 1978, within the Festival dei due Mondi of Spoleto, in Charleston USA, in 1986 at Palazzo Te in Mantua and in 1988 he was invited to the itinerant show called Scultura Italiana del XX secolo held in Japan. In 1989 he held personal exhibitions at the Centro de Arte Euroamericano in Caracas; in 1992 in Saint Agostino's Church in Pietrasanta (LU) and in 1995 at Galleria Credito Valtellinese, refectory of the Stelline in Milan. In 1998 he exhibited a group of his works at the Nardin Gallery in New York. In 1997 he was awarded the International Prize of Pietrasanta and Versilia in the World, fifth edition. He has been entrusted with the execution of the three portals of Saint Giustina's Basilica in Padua.

The sculptures by Novello Finotti are a real temptation. We are tempted by their details. The details might be fragment, though always human, such as legs, arms or fingers which, though remaining immobile as is the case with other sculptures, seem to talk to us. They incite us to begin a monologue or a dialogue or a conversation. His sculptures have bodies that are intimately sweet, and in fact sweetness and wonder lie at the heart of Finotti's creativity.