Lucio Pozzi
Lucio Pozzi (* 1935 in Milan ) is an Italian -American painter and conceptual artist .
life and work
Lucio Pozzi was born in northern Italy in 1935. He studied architecture in Milan and stayed in Rome for several years. There he had contact with the sculptor Michael Noble, whom his mother had married, and his gallery owner Gino Ghiringhelli. Pozzi's marriage to the Italian writer Dacia Maraini in 1959 was divorced after a few years.
Lucio Pozzi traveled to the USA in 1962 as a guest at Henry Kissinger's Harvard International Summer Seminar and has lived and worked in New York City and Valeggio sul Mincio since then . Pozzi has taught at Cooper Union , Yale School of Art , Princeton University , Maryland Institute College of Art, and the School of Visual Arts . He has published numerous texts in the USA and Europe.
Pozzi's work varies from small, figurative paintings to landscapes and graffiti- like, large-format drawings. He also works with the media of video , performance , installation and sculpture .
In 1983 Pozzi was awarded the National Endowment for the Arts .
Exhibitions
- 1983 Badischer Kunstverein , Karlsruhe
- 1982 Kunsthalle Bielefeld , Bielefeld
- 1980 Biennale di Venezia (American Pavilion )
- 1978 Video Series Museum of Modern Art
- 1977 documenta 6 , Kassel
Collections
Lucio Pozzi's work can be found in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art , Whitney Museum of American Art , Detroit Institute of Arts , Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago) , Art Gallery of Ontario and the Fogg Art Museum .
literature
- "Lucio Pozzi" by Lucio Pozzi, Corraini Editore, Mantova 2000 ISBN 978-8-88625-0-856
- “Lucio Pozzi a Firenze”, PL Tazzi, Italian and English, Carlo Cambi Editore, 2010 ISBN 978-8-86403-0-746
Web links
- Lucio Pozzi in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Website Lucio Pozzi
Individual evidence
- ↑ MICA Lucio Pozzi ( Memento of the original from January 4, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on January 4, 2014.
- ↑ Artantide Lucio Pozzi , accessed on January 4, 2014 (English).
- ↑ FemBio Dacia Marani , accessed on January 4, 2014 (English).
- ↑ Culture Catch The Sublime is Now: Lucio Pozzi + Bradley Rubenstein , accessed on January 4, 2014.
- ↑ Berengostudio Lucio Pozzi , accessed on December 4, 2014 (English).
- ↑ Moma Projects Projects: Lucio Pozzi , accessed on January 4, 2014 (English).
- ↑ Catalog for documenta 6: Volume 1, page 120: Painting, Plastic / Environment, Performance, 1977 ISBN 3-920453-00-X
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pozzi, Lucio |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian-American painter and conceptual artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1935 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Milan |