Fruttuoso Piccolo

Fruttuoso Piccolo (Mao) (* 1953 in Stanghella , Province of Padua ) is an Italian-German writer.

Life

Fruttuoso Piccolo is the youngest of five siblings. He dropped out of school and was left without training and initially without a job. In 1972 he came to Hanover through his older brother Paolino and worked as a laborer until 1979. Between 1973/1974 he returned to Italy to do military service in Orvieto and Trieste as an infantryman with the "Brigata Sassari" . In 1979 he quit his job as a messenger and was looking for a new perspective. In 1980 he had a serious accident that triggered a new philosophy on life. He started his artistic activity. From 1982 to 1986 he was a member of the Polynational Literature and Art Association .

In 1984 he received the "Germania" poetry prize for the best volume of poetry in Italian-German, donated by COASIT (Italian Welfare Committee), Dortmund. He received a working scholarship in the field of literature, awarded by the Ministry of Science and Art in Lower Saxony . In 1988 he was awarded a main prize at the multinational and intercultural art competition, organized by the initiative committee of foreign citizens in Lower Saxony and the foreigners commissioner of the state of Lower Saxony.

From 1988 to 1989 he was cultural advisor in the "Haus für Alle", an international district center in Hamburg . From 1991 to 1993 he worked as a cultural and artistic creator in the initiative for an international cultural center , Hanover / Lower Saxony. Then from 1993 to 1995 he worked as a cultural and artistic worker in the communication center "Alte Polizei", Stadthagen. In 2002 he worked as a youth leader in the youth center Eilsen (district of Schaumburg). In 1992 he became a member of the BBK, Association of Fine Arts.

Artistic project management:

• 1991 Tourism, Rinteln ( art in public space )
• 1991 Foreign body, Stadthagen (art in public space)
• 1992 Stranger Traces in Europe. Helmstedt (art in public space)
• 1992 Escape Train Station Europe, Hanover (art in public space)
• 1993 "Open Atelier" Emden (art in public space)
• 1995 Cinderella. Works of art from cleaning rags. (Art in public space)
• 1995 art project "open studio"
• 1997 Walls have a say. Stadthagen (art in architecture)
• 1993–2000 founder and temporarily volunteer of the art project "P Open Atelier" and the "Galerie P Süd 6" as an exhibition space for fine arts in the above-mentioned cultural center.
• 1987–2001 exhibition: “Literally, cross-border literature” (literature project).

Readings, solo exhibitions and contributions to collective exhibitions in overarching mixed forms of poetry , painting , collages , composition and photography in many cities in Germany, mainly in Lower Saxony.

Works

• "Arlecchino guest workers - Harlequin guest workers". Poems and collages, Italian-German; Postscriptum Verlag, Hannover 1985. ISBN 3-922382-28-2
• "through THE LANGUAGE another (it) ME". Poems and collages, Internationalismus Verlag, Hannover 1987. ISBN 3-922218-32-6
• 1993 author of the catalog "BUCHSTÄBLICH", exhibition Cross-Border Literature "
• 1993 His son was born