Eugenio Guglielminetti was an Italian set designer, costume designer, painter and sculptor.
He attended the Albertina Academy of Fine Arts in Turin. Student of Felice Casorati, he grew up in the Turin climate of the 1940s and 1950s, characterized by the presence of artists such as Enrico Paolucci, Paola Levi Montalcini, Albino Galvano, Luigi Spazzapan, Mino Rosso, Italo Cremona. Drawing on those cultural moods, with the direction of the art gallery "La Giostra" in Asti and contemporary intense relationships with the liveliest culture of the time (from Arcangeli to Berolli, from Soldati to Cagli, from Afro to Mirko, from Carluccio to Valsecchi and Grassi), Guglielminetti defines the coordinates of his work as a painter-sculptor who will likewise be marked by repeated Parisian stays in the post-World War II period, in contact with the trends of the international avant-garde.
In defining his artistic personality, meetings with artists such as Samuel Beckett, Joan Mirò, Jan Cocteau, Menessier, Lepique and Ramel were of great importance. From these experiences his figurative world flows in all its fullness. The theater, his scenography and his costumes, lead to highlight the signs of his origins. Painting, sculpture and his works for the rationality of contemporary architecture are documented in more than three hundred shows that align him among the most committed contemporary scenographers.
Among the numerous awards for his intense creative activity, there are the prestigious awards of the IX Rome Quadrennial in 1965, nomination for the graphics exhibited at the XXXIII Venice Biennale in 1996, the Sigillum Magnum Award for best costume designer at the National Prose Festival of Bologna and in 2001 Asti celebrated him with the Alfieri Prize.
