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Remo Mario Trentini
Artists have always struggled with the delicate balance between the technical and the emotional. Painters who have studied and mastered the uses of color, space and shape for their tenure as artists have always grappled between emotional content and composition. What is technically perfect may not be artistic and what is artistic may be technically vacant. In his work – especially his oil on glass -- Remo Trentini not only found the balance, he mastered both intellectually confounding ingredients, blending them into a final style that was fresh, exciting and new, but traditional at the same time.
Remo Mario Trentini grew up with an adaptive nature. Born in Innsbruck, Austria on February 10, 1915 during the First World War, he moved to Rovereto, Italy after the war. His surroundings in the Dolomites were the source of much of his early work. Somehow, as he was to do in many aspects of life, he was able to draw from different cultures, adopting the technical Alpine-type pragmatism and mixing it with the Italian emotionalism that was his natural heritage.
Remo Trentini was an artist who had already been discovered when he re-introduced the art world to oil on glass. He attended the Academia Albertini di belle arti di Torino from 1939 through 1944 and was tutored by the Italian maestro Caffaro. His first one-man exhibition of oils on canvas came in Fossano in 1946, where a highly regarded art critic said, "… His use of colors is particularly advanced and proves this young man is destined to become one of the great artists of our time …" He moved to Paris, where he began to dabble with oil on glass, and then, discontented with Italian politics, he came to North America; first to Canada, and then in 1980 to the United States.
Bouncing in style from surrealism to contemporary impressionism, Remo Trentini had solo exhibits throughout Europe, Canada and the United States. By the end of his life he had done works for the Canadian National Parliament and the British Royal Family, who had attained one of his paintings on glass for permanent exhibit at Buckingham Palace in 1978. His work, although constantly evolving, had one common theme: it was both technically and emotionally superior, mixing the forms of thought and emotion effortlessly. His art, like his life, still defies conventional definition. Italian, but not Italian. American at the end, but not American either. Like his paintings, a contrast between the best of all worlds.
Through it all, Trentini was able to fuse the intellectual with the spiritual, much the same as he wound from place to place and culture to culture effortlessly. In Dallas, his permanent home for the last two decades of his life, he was at his most prolific. It was there, also, that he died, November 12, 1999. As was the case for most of his homes, Dallas was simply where he resided. He was no more a Texan when he died than an Austrian when he was born. Much like his art, his heart was never encumbered by boundaries. And he was never tied to one location, one emotion – or one specific style.
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Exhibitions - Europe
1946
Galleria Narciso, Fossano
1947
Galleria del Naviglio, Milano
1948
Galleria del Naviglio, Milano
1949
Premio Gianni, Milano
Galleria Cavalino, Venice
1950
Premio Gianni, Milano
1951
Galerie Parisienne, Paris
1952
Galerie Parisienne, Paris
1954
Galerie Parisienne, Paris
1955
Galerie Parisienne, Paris
1956
Galleria La Bussola, Torino
Galleria La Mesa dell’artista, Torino
Galleria del Sole, Milano
1957
Galleria La Bussola, Torino
Galleria Lombardi di Nuovo, Milano
1958
Galleria La Bussola, Torino
Galleria Lombardi di Nuovo, Milano
1959
Galleria La Bussola, Torino
Galleria Lombardi di Nuovo, Milano
1960
Galleria Lombardi di Nuovo, Milano
1961
Galleria Bruni, Roma
Galleria Penelope, Roma
1962
Galleria Bruni, Roma
Galleria Penelope, Roma
Galleria Piemonte Artistico Culturale, Torino
1964
Galleria Arte Antica, Torino
1965
Galleria Obelisco, Roma
1966
Galleria del Navigho, Milano
1967
Galleria Notizie, Torino
1968
Galleria Lancillotto, Roma
1969
Galleria Arte Antica, Torino
Galleria Lancillotto, Roma
1970
Galleria La Rocca, Torino
Galleria Torre, Torino
1971
Galleria Floriana, Fossano
Galleria Zanini, Roma
1972
Galleria Gian Ferrari, Milano
Galleria II Milione, Milano
1973
Galleria Nuovo Carpine, Roma
1974
Galleria Nuovo Carpine, Roma
Castello di San Mezzano, Florence
1975
Galleria Nuovo Carpine, Roma
Galleria La Tavolozza, Torino
1976
Castello di San Mezzano, Florence
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Exhibitions - Canada
1976
Ottawa City Hall, Ottawa, Ontario
1977
Ottawa City Hall, Ottawa, Ontario
Studio Colleen, Ottawa, Ontario
1978
Studio Colleen, Ottawa, Ontario
Embassy West Hotel, Ottawa, Ontario
World of Antiques & Fine Art, Toronto, Ontario
1979
Studio Colleen, Ottawa, Ontario
Van Gogh’s Ear Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario
Exhibitions - U.S.A.
1980
Roughton Galleries, Dallas, TX
1981
English Gallery, Hollywood, CA
Capital Bank, Dallas, TX
1982
English Gallery, Hollwood, CA
Marilyn Goss Galleries, Dallas, TX
Collective Jewels, Dallas, TX
1983
English Gallery, Hollwood, CA
Marilyn Goss Galleries, Dallas, TX
1984
English Gallery, Hollwood, CA
Marilyn Goss Galleries, Dallas, TX
1985
Marilyn Goss Galleries, Dallas, TX
1986
Marilyn Goss Galleries, Dallas, TX
1988
Art Traders International, Chicago, IL
1989
Art Traders International, Chicago, IL
1990
Art Traders International, Chicago, IL
1992
"Carta Mondiale I" Westin at the Galleria, Dallas, TX
Ursuline Academy, Dallas, TX
1993
Grand Kempinski Hotel, Addison, TX
G.T.E. Corporation, Las Colinas, TX
River Café, Houston, TX
1994
"Carta Mondiale II" at Ursuline Academy
1995
University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, TX
1996
Grand Kempinski Hotel, Addison, TX
1997
Ursuline Academy, Dallas, TX
1998
Ursuline Academy, Dallas, TX
1999
Ursuline Academy, Dallas, TX
Remo Trentini and his beloved wife Maria in 1997
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