Ivan Moscatelli
Born in 1944.
Died in 2020.
He emigrated clandestinely to Switzerland in 1959. He completed his primary and secondary education in Borgosesia, where he studied Latin and French. His father was of Tuscan origin and his mother of Venetian descent.
The file notes that his father took part in the Resistance in Italy.
He began drawing and painting as a self-taught artist in 1965. He became a full-time artist in 1982. He lived in Wavre, in the house that housed his studio.
Moscatelli created numerous stained-glass works held in private and public collections, including the Swiss Museum of Stained Glass in Romont (FR). Stained-glass works by him are also recorded at the Funerary Centre of La Chaux-de-Fonds (NE), the Temple d’Auvernier (NE), and the Chapelle de Beauregard in Neuchâtel. Among the listed works is a monumental stained-glass work, Laudator Temporis, presented in the great hall of the Opéra Bastille in Paris, according to the list of works.
His exhibitions or institutional appearances include the Museu João Batista Conti in Atibaia (São Paulo) in 1978 and the Museu de Arte de São Paulo « Assis Chateaubriand » in 1979. In Switzerland, he is recorded at the Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne in 1980 and at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de La Chaux-de-Fonds in 1982. He was also present at the Centro Cultural Borges in Buenos Aires in 1997.
A reference to his work appears at the Swiss National Library in 1992.
The bibliography includes a monographic publication, Ivan Moscatelli, published by Éditions Gilles Attinger in 2004, with a preface by Pierre-André Delachaux. He also published a narrative, Venise intime, with Publi Libris in 2006.
The assembled material situates Moscatelli as a self-taught practitioner who developed a documented activity in stained glass and whose work was shown in Switzerland and abroad.