Biography

Aimé Maquignaz is born in 1946 in Breuil Cervinia in the Valle d’Aosta region. He attended school in Piedmont and he graduated in Law at Cattolica University in Milan. In the seventies he begins his career as a politician, and becomes the mayor of Valtournenche and then member of the city council. Later on, he devotes his time to his main activity as a hotelier and his love for painting grows stronger and stronger. He travels around a lot, in Europe, Africa, America, Russia, Japan and Mongolia, in order to learn, to study, to see and especially to experience the emotion of different civilizations, where it is easier to feel the ‘primordial’. He successfully exhibits his paintings in France, in Plateau d’Assy, in Italy, in Rome, Florence, Milan, Aosta, Salerno and Breuil-Cervinia, in his hotel, one of the most well-known hotels among artists and art-lovers