About this Work
About the Artist
Italian
b. 1941 Shanghai, China
d. 2016 Florence, Italy Giovanni Ragusa was an Italian painter who was born in Shanghai, China. He returned to Italy with his family after the war, and settled in Firenze. Ragusa participated in many solo and group exhibitions throughout Italy, France, Egypt and the US. In 1981, he was Artist-in-Residence at UC Berkeley. On returning to Italy in 1983, he had a solo exhbiition at the Palazzo Vecchio in Firenze entitled Made in Florence. Ragusa’s paintings represent his most intimate necessity: a journey through existence. “I have a motto”, he wrote, “I paint to survive, I paint to forget, I especially paint to remember.”
b. 1941 Shanghai, China
d. 2016 Florence, Italy Giovanni Ragusa was an Italian painter who was born in Shanghai, China. He returned to Italy with his family after the war, and settled in Firenze. Ragusa participated in many solo and group exhibitions throughout Italy, France, Egypt and the US. In 1981, he was Artist-in-Residence at UC Berkeley. On returning to Italy in 1983, he had a solo exhbiition at the Palazzo Vecchio in Firenze entitled Made in Florence. Ragusa’s paintings represent his most intimate necessity: a journey through existence. “I have a motto”, he wrote, “I paint to survive, I paint to forget, I especially paint to remember.”
