ARTIST DIEGO VOCI’S 95th BIRTHDAY

Diego Voci’s Birthplace: Via Regina Elena, 85 Gasperina (CZ) Italy

95 years ago today in a tiny village of Gasperina, Tailor Guiseppe Antonio Voci’s wife Messina Arcangela gave birth to her second of three sons, Antonio Innocenzo Voci, destined to become the internationally collected artist known as “Diego Voci”.

Like his 2 brothers, Diego attended tailoring school in Reggio, learning skills he would apply designing clothes for himself and ladies of his liking, click on link:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Diego_Voci#1920.E2.80.931938:_early_life.  But art was his true love.  “I must to paint”.  Diego did not hear his father’s advice “The God of art does not give bread”.

Diego would draw incessantly.  4,000 oil painted canvases and thousands of works on paper.   Yet in the elite art world Diego Voci remained unknown.  That is beginning to change as his exceptional talent is being discovered by a New Generation.  Diego Voci Project is searching for and cataloging Diego’s art in the world’s only Diego Voci Archive.  Please help us fine them all.

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THE BIG GIFT TO DIEGO VOCI’S MOTHER

In 1955 the Matriarch of the Voci family was treated to her long awaited religious wish to visit Saint Peters Basilica in Rome.

Messina Arcangela (b. 1880), was granted her 75^TH birthday wish by 2 of her 3 sons.  On her left is her middle son Giuseppe age 42, a musician in the Rome Orchestra; and his daughter Lina age 11, to the right of Messina is her youngest son, our internationally collected artist Antonio Diego Voci age 35, dressed smartly (most likely in clothes of his own making trained at tailoring school in Reggio); To the right of Diego, Maria Teresa Voci, she is the mother to Mario age 13, standing in front of her.  To the far right is Tonino age 16, older brother to Mario.  Tonino was later killed in an auto accident 2002.  Diego was his idol.

Mario, now in his seventies who supplied this family photo said of his “Nanny” (Grandmother), “The coolest lady I’ve ever known.  Cooler than a refrigerated cucumber”. 

Vincenzo, Diego’s oldest brother, at the time of this photo, was the missing brother, a professional designer at Pincus Manufacturing in Philadelphia, his home since he was 15 years old.

Messina’s husband Giuseppe Antonio had passed away.  He wanted Diego and his brothers to be tailors and sent them all to tailoring school in Reggio (birthplace of Versace).  His advice to Diego who said he wanted to be an artist, “Toto [Diego], the God of Art does not give bread”.