Pietro Cascella (Pescara 1921- Pietrasanta 2008)

Although starting as a painter in a painters family, initially Pietro Cascella favors the working of ceramics by collaborating with various architects and producing works created and inserted in architectural structures, such as the ceiling of the meeting hall in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Rome. Cascella then exhibited in most of Europe (at the Venice Biennale in 1948, at the Exhibition of Italian sculpture in Germany in 1963, at the Tokyo Biennale in 1965 and in the same year at the IX Quadrennial of Rome), which gave him a good inventive charge that affects also the first sketch for the Monument to Auschwitz done together with his brother Andrea. This work, like the subsequent "sculptures in the square", confirms the idea of Cascella, who thought of sculpture as a great civil commitment. As the Artist said "... I simply want to participate, through this stone craft of mine in the adventure of the modern man with a certain vitality, a certain commitment". The artist creates monumental works for different cities in Italy and around the world: the Arch of Peace in Tel Aviv (1979), the Homage to Europe in Strasbourg (1963), the Monument to Mazzini in Milan (1974), the Porta della Sapienza in Pisa (1995). In 2000 he exhibited in Pietrasanta with the exhibition La scultura un sogno di pietra with works in Piazza del Duomo and Chiesa di Sant’Agostino, Guastalla catalog Graphis Arte editions for the Municipality of Pietrasanta. In 2003, in Guastalla Centro Arte gallery some of his small and medium format works and some of his preparatory studies are exhibited in memorable exhibition that, living the artist, collects and witnesses the great contribution of this in bringing the sculpture from its nine hundred forms to modernity. On this occasion he created a multiple work in bronze for the editions of Guastalla Centro Arte with the title Attesa. A work Omaggio a Modigliani, in statuary marble, is exhibited in the Casa Natale Amedeo Modigliani Livorno.