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Vanni is an Italian abstract painter. Born in Paris, he grew up in Rome, where he attended the Istituto d’Arte. In 1979
he received a scholarship to study painting at The Cooper Union School of Art in New York. His first solo show was at
Il Ponte Gallery, Rome, in 1986, and he has continued to ex- hibit nationally and internationally over the last forty years.
His work has drawn inspiration from the tumultuous activity
of Manhattan since his arrival in the late ‘70s, in the wake of Abstract Expressionism. He found in that movement, the per- fect complement to his interest in late Renaissance Venetian painting. In the summer, he nourishes his sensibility from the seascape of Greece, which he has known since sailing around the mediterranean as a young boy. Observing these shifting forces, he tries to distinguish forms, orders, and patterns that will emerge in his work. Public collections include: Pinacoteca of Aosta, Italy; Irving Cancer Center, Columbia University, NY; Yale Eye Center, Yale University, New Haven, CT; Camba Hous- ing Ventures, Brooklyn, NY.