Lino Corradi, Giardino e interno decorati / Decorated garden and interior

the tower of the church La Ghirlandina in Modena, Italy
all images as published on the website "Lino Corradi"
compiled by his family in memory of Corradi, who had died

The tower pictured above is a replica of the tower of the La Ghirlandina church in the city of Modena, located in the province with the same name in the Italian region of Emilia-Romagna

Life and works 

This replica was constructed by Lino Corradi (1935-2024), who was born in the municipality of  Bastiglia. He worked his whole life in the marble sector, where he gained a lot of experience and skill in manually processing pieces of hard rock.

He married Carlo Paola Osvalda and in 1973, when he was 42 years old, he and his wife went to build a house in one of the communities in the Apennine area of ​​the province of Modena..

With his manual skills he also made parts of the furnishings himself, such as tables and cabinets.

a marble seagull

When he retired in the 1990s, Corradi did not opt ​​for a quiet life, but he began kind of a a new career in making sculptures which he used to decorated his house and garden.

In the first phase he mainly worked on pieces of marble, such as the seagull in the image above,

canon

But soon he also started making creations from wood, such as the cannon above.

And also a series of wooden figures depicting all kinds of types, such as a cowboy, an Indian, and Pinocchio below

a cowboy

an Indian

Pinocchio

Below an image of l due angeli (the two angels), a creation made of sheet metal, which was not situated in the garden, but on a nearby hill .

In selecting the images of Corrari's artistic work, the emphasis for this article has been on creations that are situated in the open air and therefore contribute more than the creations in the interior to indicating the whole of sculptures as an art environment.

During Lino Corrari's lifetime his creative work received virtually no publicity. Fortunately, Giada Carraro, who publishes about art environments in Italy, made up for this with her article about Lino Corradi that appeared in her website Bric-à-brac Italia.

Documentation

* Website about Corradi's creations made in his honor by the family after he died

* Article about Corradi's life and work by Giada Carraro on her website Bric-à-brac Italia

Lino Corradi

Decorated garden and interior

Located in an unspecified community

in the Apennines of Modena,

region of Emilia-Romagna, Italy