About the Artist
Lucio del Pezzo
Lucio del Pezzo (b. 1933 - 2020) is an Italian artist, painter and sculptor born in Naples. He is among the founders of the Group 58 of Naples, Neo-surrealist and Neo-Dadaist, Del Pezzo has also collaborated in the journal Documento Sud. His works from 1958-1960 proposed assemblies of various objects, including fragments of prints and popular images. In 1960 he moved to Paris, then to Milan, where he was given several monographic exhibitions (the first in 1974). Starting from 1962 Del Pezzo has created his typical repertoire of "paintings" or "sculptures", made up of monochrome geometric panels, on which are shelves or hollowed out concavities, which support regular geometric objects (skittles, wooden eggs, bowls, mannequins, etc.) sometimes very colorful. In his painting-objects and his assemblages a playful aspect is always present. In their ironic tone and in the use of decontextualized everyday objects, these works refer to Pop Art; but there is an evident referencing of Giorgio De Chirico, Carlo Carra and Giorgio Morandi (Motivo, 1967), and of the geometries of metaphysical painting.
