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Giuseppe Migneco was born in 1903 in Messina.
When he was young lived with his family in Ponteschiavo; it was a little station near Messina where his father was the station-master.
In Ponteschiavo the young teenager spent the most beautiful days of his life. There he felt his sense of freedom in the nature and farmer life.
The adolescent Migneco went to Messina in order to attend the Secondary School.
In the twenties years he moved to the big industrial city in Milan because of the Faculty ofMedicine. But his attendance at the lessons was rare.
His friendship with Baniamo Ioppolo, who was an important European intellectual, and Birolli increased his true vocation, so then he left the university.
Migneco tried to survive, with advertising sketches for a tie firm, and retouched rotogravures as the “Corriere dei Piccoli”.
He started to paint autobiographic and existential pictures. In 1936 he exhibited in the “VII Mostra del Sindacato Fascista Lombardo” ( 7th Exhibition of the Lombard Fascist Syndicate) until 1944 where he participated until the13th exhibition.
In 1938 when Treccani was 18 years old, he founded the magazine “Corrente di vita giovanile” (Young current of life), where the movement of the current brought the possibility of success to the young artists.
Migneco exhibited in the first and in the second exhibition of the Bottega (of the Studio) in the Palazzo della Permanente (Palace of the Permanent) and at the Galleria Grande (Great Gallery)”
In 1940 his primerwas in the Galleria Genova (Genova Gallery) in the Ligurian capital with the catalogue presentation of Beniamo Joppolo. In 1940 he took part of the 2ndBergamo award in the Palazzo della Regione (Palace of the Region).
On January 1941 another primer was organized in the Bottega di Corrente (the Studio of the Current) and he always took part of the 3rd Bergamo award.
His paintings were bought by the National Ministry of the Education and today they are in the ModernArtGallery in Rome.
In 1942 he exhibited Cacciatori di Lucertola (Hunters of Lizards) next to the Crocifissione (Crucifixion) of Renato Guttuso in the 4th Bergamo award.
In 1942 the Centro d’Azione per le Arti (the action arts centre) wanted by Bottai, it organized the exhibition of Ventuno Artisti Italiani (twenty-one Italian Artists).
There were among the artists Birolli, Mafai, Tosi, Severini, Rosai, De Pisis, Cosorati, Gottuso, and Migneco with “Gli sposi e Bambine dal cappuccio” ( Spouses and the Child with hood).
In 1942 he exhibited in the Galleria della Spiga (the Gallery of the Spike) yet.
Then he stopped his artistic work because he was called up for military service.
Thegroup of current wasted because of war and dark atmosphere of the time.
In 1945, after the war he created some tempera paintings with partisan warscenes.
At the end of 1945 a merchant of arts invited him to paint a landscape as Van Gogh paintings.
Migneco painted a wooden tablet, not signed, it was sold to many collectors and for some time it was exposed at the NOMA in New York next to true Van Gogh works.
In 1948 he was again in an exhibition organized by Cardazzo at the Galleria del Naviglio (the Gallery of Shipping).
It is the year of the Renaissance because of his presence for the first time even in the 5th quadriennal National of roman Art (where he exhibited until 1960 and 1986 too) and in the 24th biennal of Venice Art where he exhibited in fifties and fifties-two in fifties-four years till 1958.
In 1950 he obtained a personal exhibition room.
In fifties and fifties-two years he came back to Sicily.
In 1951 he won the APIT award, Provincial Tourism Institution of Messina with the Paesaggio di Castelmola (the landscape of Castelmola).
Today in the provincial gallery of the city and in 1953 he took part at the exhibition Rassegna Strade d’Italia-Premio Esso (Italian Streets-Esso award) in the Palazzo delle Esibizioni (Palace of Exhibitions).
He was the winner of many awards, in fact in 1955 he suggested to Capo d-Orlando Major the award “vita e paesaggio di Capo d-Orlando” (life and landscape in Capo d’Orlando) where he had to performance en plain air where he participated with Ulivi (Olives) in S. Gregorio in 1956.
In 1964 he did a yearned travel in Russia and Hungary. In the same years he visited other European cities. In fact his exhibitions were organized in London, Stoccarda, Berlin, Monaco di Baviera, Amsterdam too.
In 1970 Luigi and Rita Di Piazza organized his primer, and they created the Galleria La Robina in 1966 (the Gallery La Robinia). In 1975 they exhibited some beautiful tempera paintings published in the big volume Poesia contadina russa (Russian farmer poetry).
In 1976 he participated with the Ballo di contadini (Farmer dancing) at the exhibition of the “Tavolozza d’Oro” (Golden tablet), the award assigned to Messina and to the 1st National Exhibition of the Sacred of the contemporary art by the Galleria “Il Fondaco” (the Gallery Il Fondaco), it was organized in Palermo.
In 1983 his city dedicated an anthological exhibition by Lucio Barbera with more than 140 paintings in the large halls of Palazzo Comunale (MunicipalPalace). Then it was moved to Rotondo della Besana (Rotondo of the Besana) in Milan.
In 1988 he is with three works in the big National Exhibition of Contemporary Art Tota Pulchra, of the eighteenth century Hotel dellePovere (Hotel of the Povere) in Palermo.
In 1991 he took part to another great National Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Lux Mundi, in the same Hotel delle Povere.
In 1995 inMilan, there was the last public anthological exhibition about his 50 years of works.
He died on 28th February 1997 during the night. He was the last of the great painters of the Italian realism.
A main catalogue almost completed is the proof of his fifties years of works, considering his huge production cured by Luigi D’Eramo.

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