New Generation of Modigliani Artwork Now Available for Sale in Los Angeles.

Sergio Di Cori Modigliani show enters last week at Atelier Modigliani. Over 60 original pieces on display at Los Angeles studio.

July 22, 2003- Hollywood glitterati never had it so good. In the true spirit of the artistic avant-garde for which his family name is known, Italian artist Sergio Di Cori Modigliani seems to have a leg up on modern art.

(On display June 5 through August 4, 2003) Di Cori's mixed media images colorfully celebrate the glamour and drama associated with both his adopted city and his signature subject matter; women's legs.

Photographs, some with oils, acrylics, titanium pigments and diamond dust boldly reflect the excitement of a long dreamed of acceptance speech.

Italian art critic Francesca Pietracci says of his work "...a leg-artist by excellence, a founder of the new wave of conceptual post modern realistic movement with a personal signature that reveals the fragrance of the glamour life in the fashion world where he has always been involved...".

Never compromising his vision, Di Cori has sold his photographs and paintings only to private collectors, with an occasional foray in Italian fashion editorial photography.

Born (1950) and raised in Italy, Di Cori comes from one of the most famous and prominent artistic Italian families. Painter and sculptor, Amedeo Modigliani, whose works hang in the permanent collection at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and more locally, at LACMA and Pasadena's Norton Simon was Sergio's great-uncle.

Well known in Italy as a writer and professional journalist, Di Cori has enjoyed a prolific career as an artist. Educated at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan in 1969, he later received a PhD in Psychology of Visual Art at Columbia University.

He assisted German photographer, Helmut Newton from 1969-1971 when Newton was preparing his first book "White Women".

He worked with the French master Jean Loup Sieff, Arles, Provence, France until the late '70s and in 1978, won the Grand Prix at the International festival of Fine Art (nude section) in France.

Di Cori currently serves as a foreign correspondent for Italian newspapers and magazines about the Hollywood industry. He remains a trusted visual consultant for longtime friend, Emporio Armani.

A then resident of Manhattan, NY, Di Cori was invited in 2000 by Mayor Rudolph Giuliani as one of the members of a group of 25 European artists who had the opportunity to have an entire floor in the twin towers as a permanent, "European creative factory in the heart of N.Y.". After the tragedy of September 11, he has chosen to move back to California.

He now makes his home in Laguna Beach with former model and now journalist and fashion consultant Michela Mariotti, three pugs and a lot of plants (Sergio loves gardening).

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