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FULVIO TESTA
was born in Verona, Italy in
1947
. He is the author
and illustrator of the well-loved children’s books
The Endless Journey
and
A
Long Trip to Z,
as well as the Harvard Classics Edition
of
Elizabethan Drama.
Testa’s most recent project is the newly illustrated edition of Geoffrey Brock’s
translation of
Pinocchio
, published by The New York Review Children’s
Collection, with an introduction by Umberto Eco.
Testa’s watercolors and paintings have been exhibited internationally since
1976
in museums, libraries and galleries including the Cl aude Bernard
Gallery and Denise Cadé Gallery in New York, The Art Institute of Chicago,
The Fogg Museum at Harvard University, the Monterey Museum of Modern
Art in California, the Museo d’Arte Moderna in Gazoldo degli Ippoliti, Italy,
and many others. Testa’s works on paper have been the subject of essays by
art critic Karen Wilkin, who introduces our exhibition, the late John Russell,
and by Dana Gioia, former chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts.
In
2004
, the catalogue of Testa’s solo exhibition at Schmidt Dean Gallery was
accompanied by poems by W.S. Piero.
Fulvio Testa currently resides in New York and Verona, Italy.