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in corsaWater–coloring and acrylic painting have no secrets for him, especially in all shades of red, a color that, like all genuine Emilians, he is particularly fond of.
When Ferrari was taking its first steps, Giovanni Cremonini was only six years old, enough though to instill a passion that, unable to curb it, has marked his whole life.
Cremonini is a graphic arts designer, but this activity is after all fictitious as, soon after his diploma, he started his apprenticeship at the studio of Antonio de’ Giusti one of the masters of automobile illustration.
From professor de’ Giusti Cremonini learnt as much as he could on the most refined techniques and the use of the different materials, thus building up an enviable experience that he soon started using for his great passion: Formula 1.
The personal friendship and frequentation of de’ Giusti with Enzo Ferrari led young Cremonini to be a direct and privileged witness of a legend that was growing with him, with its victories, and its defeats, its joys and tragedies.
The Formula 1 world so close
and tangible, allowed him to develop a pictorial sensitivity
of extraordinary impact, able to convey the dynamism of
racing cars, the stress of the technical detail, the tenseness
of the driver’s face during the effort of the race.
Maybe even without fully realizing it, art got the upper
hand of his profession and the portraits of drivers and
cars became the main subject of Giovanni Cremonini’s
job with an almost exclusive leitmotiv: Ferrari. Today
Giovanni Cremonini is an established artist.
His works have been used
as covers for motoring magazines, as official posters
of several editions of the San Marino Grand Prix or are
now part of private collections. In 1991 and 1992 they
were displayed in two personal exhibits at the Ferrari
Gallery in Maranello where the subject was respectively
the great champions of the Prancing Horse and the unforgettable
Gilles Villeneuve.Oddly enough among the works he likes best there are Jim Clark and Jackie Stewart portraits, two drivers that not only did not drive for Ferrari, but who were among the most dangerous and fighting opponents of the Scuderia.
In 1995 Cremonini starts one of his most important works, a collection called “the Ferrari legend in Formula 1”. It is made up of 16 paintings realized almost by chance over a 7-year time span. The first ones, originally black and white and later colored, portrayed the glorious champions of the past: Ascari, Fangio, Hawthorn.
With time and with the Prancing Horse back to success, Cremonini completed the parade of the World Champions also adding a few drivers that, even if they did not reached the world title, had a special place in the heart of the “tifosi” such as Regazzoni, Villeneuve, von Trips, Pironi and Tambay and last but not least Irvine and Salo.
The folder is realized in 100 units numbered with Arabic numerals and 20, not for sale, are numbered with Roman numerals. Each folder includes the pressed lithographic print of the original paintings. The plates used to realize the lithographies were destroyed following printing.
