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In 1943 he participated in the fourth Quadriennial of Rome and in 1945 in the first show of Free Artists organized by the Italian Communist Party in the Singer Hall on Corso Carlo Alberto in Grosseto. After the war he was a founder of the Circolo Artistico Grossetano, which from 1946 ran La Chimera, the first permanent gallery space in the city. Named a city councillor and then commissioner in the municipal administration, he joined the union of painters belonging to the CGIL and in 1955 took part in the Realism exhibition in Grosseto. In 1963 he founded a public school of fine arts, which was forced to close by the flood of 1966. His realism in portraying landscape was evident in \u201cArte Contro. 1945-1970, from Realism to Protest,\u201d curated by Mario De Micheli in Palazzo Cosmini in Grosseto, but his true recognition as an artist only came a year after his death, with the personal anthology exhibition mounted as part of the Celtracon International Review of Art in Grosseto and the show organized in 2010 in Grosseto on the centenary of his birth.","link":"http:\/\/www.poloaldi.it\/en\/artwork-artists\/carlo_gentili-en\/","name":"Carlo Gentili","slug":"carlo_gentili-en","taxonomy":"artwork-artists","parent":0,"meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.10 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Carlo Gentili Archivi - Polo Culturale Pietro Aldi<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/www.poloaldi.it\/en\/artwork-artists\/carlo_gentili-en\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Carlo Gentili Archivi - Polo Culturale Pietro Aldi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Grosseto, 18 October &#8211; 17 July 1996\u00a0 At the age of twelve, Carlo Gentili entered the workshop of the sculptor Ivo Pacini as an apprentice, where he became acquainted with the artists of the Grosseto area. 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Named a city councillor and then commissioner in the municipal administration, he joined the union of painters belonging to the CGIL and in 1955 took part in the Realism exhibition in Grosseto. In 1963 he founded a public school of fine arts, which was forced to close by the flood of 1966. 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