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One-Man Shows:
1945 Firenze, "La Porta" Gallery
1946 Firenze, "Il Fiore" Gallery
1951 Firenze, "La VignaNuova" Gallery
1952 Firenze, "Numero" Gallery
1953 Firenze, "Galleria d'Arte Contemporanea"
         Firenze, "La Strozzina" Gallery
1954 Firenze, "Numero" Gallery
         Lo Ciuffenna Town Hall
1960 Firenze, "La Strozzina" Gallery
1961 Pisa University Institute for the History of Art
1963 Firenze, "Quadrante" Gallery
1965 Firenze, "Proposte" Gallery
1966 Arezzo, Circolo Artistico
1967 S.Giovanni Valdarno, "Il Ponte" Gallery
1968 Firenze, "Il Fiore" Gallery
1969 Firenze, "Pananti" Gallery
         Firenze, "Michelucci" Gallery
         Arezzo, Circolo Artistico
1970 Firenze, Galleria "Michelucci"
         Firenze, "Pananti" Gallery
1971 Firenze, Galleria "Pananti"
         S.Giovanni Valdarno, "Il Ponte" Gallery
1972 Firenze, Galleria "Pananti"
         Arezzo, Circolo Artistico
         S.Giovanni Valdarno, "Il Ponte" Gallery
         Montevarchi, "Palazzetto Alamanni" Gallery
1973 Prato, Galleria "Metastasio"
         Arezzo, Comunale Gallery
         Firenze, Chiostro di S.Marco
         Firenze, "Pananti" Gallery
1974 S.Croce sull'Arno, Galleria "Cristiano Banti"
         S.Giovanni Valdarno, "Il Ponte" Gallery
         Firenze, "Pananti" Gallery
         Firenze, Chiostro di S.Marco
         Montecatini, "La Salita" Gallery
1975 Parigi, Maison des Lettres
         Montecatini, "La Salita" Gallery
         Arezzo, Circolo Artistico
1976 Firenze, Chiostro di S.Marco
1977 Firenze, "Pananti" Gallery
         Monza, "Montrasio Arte" Gallery
1978 Pontassieve, "Il Castello" Gallery
         Loro Ciuffenna, Palazzo Comunale
1979 Firenze, Galleria "Pananti"
         Bologna, "Galleria del Vicolo Quartirolo"
         Loro Ciuffenna, Town Hall
1980 Firenze, "Pananti" Gallery
         Prato, "Il Pozzo" Gallery
1981 Firenze, "Pananti" Gallery
1982 Firenze, "Pananti" Gallery
         Roma, "Prospettive nel mondo"
1983 S.Giovanni Valdarno, Casa di Masaccio
         Firenze, "Pananti" Gallery
         Arezzo, Galleria Comunale
         Parma, "Rossi" Gallery
1984 Firenze, "Pananti" Gallery
         Sesto Fiorentino, Rifugio Gualdo
1985 Firenze, "Pananti" Gallery
         Firenze, Chiostro di S.Marco
1986 Firenze, "Pananti" Gallery
1987 Firenze, "Pananti" Gallery
         Chitignano, Palazzo Comunale
1988 Firenze, "Pananti" Gallery
         Arezzo, Sala di S.Ignazio
1989 Fiesole, Seminario del Palazzo Vescovile
         Vallombrosa, Abbazia Benedettina
1990 Firenze, "Pananti" Gallery
1992 Firenze, "Pananti" Gallery
1993 Firenze, "Pananti" Gallery
Venturino Venturi, 1956
Venturino Venturi, 1970
Venturi, 1975
What the critics said:

"What most convinces us in Venturi's art is that birth of his from a desire for knowledge, for an uncommon objectification…."
Giovanni Colacicchi, 1945

"Venturino Venturi is truly a sculptor, in the fullest sense of the word. In every work of his, the material is still alive; it breathes…." Michelangelo Masciotta, 1946

"Rarely does it happen that one can abandon oneself with serenity and be absorbed in a work that has the capacity to lead to one's coming upon - with great suggestion - the germinal moment of poetry, and [one] has this capacity because this moment is dominated and expressed: it is a true form of sentiment".
Carlo L. Ragghianti, 1961

"…inventive impulse, without abstruseness or condescension of a cerebral origin: a strong emotional charge which never becomes turbid and disperses, monitored as it is by an inflexible plastic sense…." Mario Bergomi, 1963

"There emanates from him that legendary quality which we connect with the ancient and perennial idea of the creator of living forms; we can manually touch the birth of an idea that has been thought into the material which must contain and exalt it; not circumspect, not mediated nor domesticated by modern astuteness; the ancient comparison and the challenge between freedom and limitation reappears."
Mario Luzi, 1963

"And his strength lies completely in that daily submersion of the mystery of the universe, convinced that the power of his art, the truth, the expressiveness, will sooner or later be fully understood."
Franco Simongini, 1979

"…Venturino gives and offers, without blandishments, without abuses. A small miracle, we repeat, a great light that reaches us from a soul reborn within the voice of the ancient heart."
Carlo Bo, 1985

"What distinguishes him from today's artists is his primary intuition, which has allowed him to rise back up to certain principles of life. I judge him to be one of the absolute modern artists, among the purest and most intense who exist."
Romano Bilenchi, 1988

"Having precipitated since then into the senses and the senses having precipitated into sculpture, without any residue; if not, he could not have been completely himself on every page, in every stone, as he - Venturino - has been."
Alessandro Parronchi, 1993