Teatro Regio
Via Garibaldi, 16
43100 Parma, Italy
Madoi, al Teatro Regio
March 17th – 31st, 1946

Madoi was only 20 years old (born March 26, 1925) when he was offered the opportunity of this first one-man exhibition. Parma, as well of all Italy, was just coming out from a war and Madoi himself was coming down the mountains where he had been fighting as Cardenio, his partisan nom-de-guerre,  for the last two years. So it came as quite a surprise when this only simple sheet of paper, representing the evidence of this exhibition as a modest catalogue, came out from the Archives, along with critic notes and paper-cuts from the local newspaper dated back to those days. In this event the young Madoi presented his art works collected and saved from the ravages of the war, all dated from 1934 to 1944. Thirty portraits and landscapes, some lent by his first clients or coming from his own collection, were presented in this unique setting, probably being the very first festive and cultural event in Parma after the drama of the war. To this event, in the same year, followed the commission to paint in fresco the ceiling of the hall of the private cabinet of the Mayor, in the Municipal House, which was unveiled by the first President of the newly born Republic of Italy, Hon De Nicola, in 1947.