Bugno Art Gallery hosts the archives of two artists born in the first decade of the twentieth century: Armando Pizzinato (1910) and Mario Deluigi (1901). The first one was from Maniago, the second from Treviso; the two artists made close connections with the city of Venice, taking part in the major artistic movements of the time: Pizzinato joined the Front of the New Arts and then he moved on to social realism, while Deluigi signed the Manifesto of the Spatial Art, founded by Lucio Fontana and then the Television Manifesto of the Spatial Movement.
The Armando Pizzinato Archive, created a year after his death in 2005, was born from the collaboration between Patrizia Pizzinato, the artist’s daughter and Massimiliano Bugno, the owner of the gallery. Since 2008, the art historian Casimiro Di Crescenzo has been dealing with the Catalog raisonné of the artist’s works. The collection consists in the expansion of the historical and photographic archive, created by Pizzinato himself during his lifetime.
The artworks kept in the gallery are: correspondence, manuscripts, typescripts and print drafts with the artist’s autograph corrections, catalogs of personal and collective exhibitions, bibliographic material, newspapers and magazines, Pizzinato’s library and photographic background.
The Armando Pizzinato Archive is aimed at the study, protection and enhancement of the artist’s work. They manage the copyright and the defense of his work, countering fakes and counterfeits. They collect all the works, issuing certificates of authenticity upon request and after careful evaluation.
The Catalog raisonné of the works is currently being created. The first volume includes all the works influenced by the New Front of the Arts and neorealism, up to the early sixties. The second volume is still under development.
Since 2016, the Bugno Art Gallery has been hosting the Mario Deluigi Archive, from which the General Catalog, created by Caterina De Luigi, daughter of the artist and Giovanni Bianchi (son of Caterina), was born. Appointed by the four brothers, Caterina and Giovanni manage the archive and grant authenticity to the artworks.
Bugno Art Gallery oversaw the digitalization of the archive, with the collaboration of Luca De Luigi, the artist’s grandson. The archiving of the works was started by the artist himself. The Catalog raisonné, to be published the next year, estimates a collection of 1100 works by the artist, 900 of which have already been archived. The cataloged works exclusively concern the artist’s paintings. For the moment, drawings, lithographs, prints, engravings, sculptures, frescoes and mosaics are excluded.