State of Siege

State of siege, 1972. It's a work realized by Valeriano Trubbiani (Macerata 1937). 

height 95 cm, base in the shape of a square 30 x 30 cm; wngs opening 70 x 70 cm.

zinc and chromium.

EXHIBITIONS: Venice, XXXVI International Art Biennial, 1972; Rome, X National Art Quadrennial, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, 1972.

Valeriano Trubbiani (Macerata, December 2, 1937 - Ancona, August 29, 2020) was an Italian sculptor, engraver and artist.

Valeriano Trubbiani was born in Macerata on 2 December 1937, from a master ironsmith who repaired agricultural tools in a civilization still strongly linked to the land. In 1956 he graduated from the Art Institute of Macerata, and then moved to Rome where he attended the Academy of Fine Arts. It was in these years that the artist frequented the Roman intellectual environment, forging relationships with Edgardo Mannucci, Gino Marotta, and with members of the 58 Group of Naples including Guido Biasi and Lucio Del Pezzo. If his exhibition activity already began at the end of the 1950s as a painter of expressionist-surreal inspiration, it was then in 1960, after returning to Macerata, that he began to create metal sculptures in his father's workshop, which soon led him his participation in the Biennial of young artists in Paris in 1963, followed by the Biennial of São Paulo in Brazil in 1965 and the Venice Biennial in 1966. In this period Trubbiani used pre-existing elements that he disassembled and combined with found objects. Later he created the so-called "war machines", complex machines of suffering and death.