Mirko Basaldella

Brother of Dino and Afro, he was born in Udine in 1910. Between 1949 and 1951 he creates the three gates at the Mausoleum of the Ardeatine Caves in Rome, an imposing bronze monument dedicated to the victims of the slaughter of the Second World War. At the beginning of the 1950s Mirko travels to Syria, from where he returns with a renewed interest in oriental culture, biblical themes, Assyrian and Babylonian mythology and iconolgy, ancient Greek and pre-Columbian civilisations.
In 1957 he moves to the United States, in Massachusetts, where he becomes the director of the Design Workshop at the Carpenter Center for Visual Arts at Harvard University in Cambridge. From then his pursuit veers even more towards new ways of creating sculptures, with different structures and materials.
He dies in the city of Cambridge in the USA in 1969.
Today his works are found in some of the most important museums in the world: the Vatican Museums, the Galleries of Modern Art in Rome and Turin, the Guggenheim in Venice, the Novecento Museum in Florence, the Fogg Art Gallery in Cambridge USA, and museums in Rotterdam, Philadelphia and Denver are just some of the places that host his work.

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