Production: F.s.f.c.

Line production: Il Circolo della confusioneMake it stand

Director: Gemma Lynch

Genre: Short Documentary

Duration: 9 min

Year: 2019

Anna Marongiu was born in Cagliari on 1 January 1907.
Having demonstrated, since childhood, a strong artistic vocation and an innate expressive ability, he studied painting with Prof. Coromal and, in the same years, he attended the English Academy in Rome, participating very young in various exhibitions with works of various techniques and , in particular, with pen drawings.
Later he learned from Prof. Carlo Alberto Petrucci, director of the State Chalcography, the etching technique, in which he had to reveal himself as an artist of singular qualities.
In fact, the richness of fantasy was combined with a graphic perfection and an uncommon vigor of expression of the most varied feelings, from the religious to the chimerical, from the dramatic to the humorous.
In the last years of her short existence, she also proved to be an expert in the use of the burin, giving clear evidence of the ability achieved in the exercise of this arduous means of expression.
He also carried out in the illustrative field, elaborating figurative series commenting on Manzoni's "Promessi Sposi" and Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and leaving among other things, unedited, a large collection of ink drawings and inspired watercolors from the "Pickwick Circle" by Charles Dickens, currently kept at the Charles Dickens Museum in London.
He participated in various exhibitions in Sardinia, where in 1938, he held his first "personal" in Cagliari at the Palladino Gallery, and in numerous and important art events in Italy and abroad, including those held in Bordeaux (1932 )), Riga (1935), Opatija (1936), Athens (1937), Bucharest (1937), and Central America (1939), as well as the Modern Italian Engraving Exhibition (Rome 1940).
Among his works are preserved the sketches of the paintings with which he should have decorated, according to a mandate received, the chapel of the Traumatological Hospital of Iglesias.
Anna Marongiu tragically died in an aviation accident in Ostia, near Rome, on 30 July 1941.