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The life
Born in 1937 in Albaro, a very small
village near Verona, third of eleven brothers, Luigi Lineri has been devoting
himself to art for more than fifty years. At first he applied himself mostly to
dialectal poetry, painting, ceramic. As a Veronese dialectal poet he is well
known not only in Verona but in many Venetian cities as well.
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In 1963 he was awarded the first prize “B.Roghi” for poetry in Verona, in 1964 the second prize
“L.Rizzi” in Rovigo and he was signalized in Venezia at the poetry competition “G.Marta”.
In 1965 he was awarded the third prize
by the Literary Society for Dialectal Poetry in Trieste and the first prize
“Ghedini” in Verona.
In 1967 he was awarded the first prize
“Boscochiesanuova” and the second prize “Bardolino”.
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In 1970 , having realized the presence
of the repetition of some forms in the stones of the river Adige, he started his
stone collection which he considers his most beautiful piece of poetry and he
has been keeping up till today.
In 1971 he exhibited at the Galleria Frà
Giocondo in Verona.In 1972 he published “Peso de cel” (Weight of Sky) , a
dialectal poetry volume which was included in the same year in the Venetian
Dialectal Poetry Anthology in Padua. In the same year another Art Exhibition
occured with the title “The Young Veronese Sculpture” at the Literary Society
Palace in Verona.
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In 1985 he was awarded the first prize “B.Barbarani – Nomisma Auratum” at the Catullian Academy in Verona. In 1987 he
exhibited in Verona at the Cultural Centre San Giorgeto with the Art Exhibition
“Myth Profiles” where he showed stones, paintings, sculptures and had a great
success. In the same year he published a new poetry collection, “Canto par i
silensi e i pestoni” (“I sing for silences and pains”).
In 1990 he exhibited at San Zeno Castle,
in Montagnana, Padua, with the Art Exhibition “Talking to Light blue”. In 1993
he published “Adige, un fiume di memorie” (Adige, a river full of memories) rich
in photographs about his stone collection and theory. In the same year he
exhibited at San Zeno, Verona.
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In 1995 he showed his works of art in
In 1998, invited by Musee de l’Art Brut
of Losanna, he gave it some works of art and in the same year pictures of his
sculptures were projected at the Cultural Centre “La Tinaia” in Florence.
In 2002 Marc G. Ferrari realized a mini
digital video on Lineri and his art called “Qui si può passare” (You can pass
here) for Ferrari Studios, Chicago, USA while Franco Piola shooted a motion
picture called “Lineri- a river full of memories”.
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