Umberto Pettinicchio

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Umberto Pettinicchio (born June 30, 1943 in Torremaggiore ) is an Italian painter and sculptor .

Life

Pettinicchio pursued simpler occupations in his youth. He got his first contact with art while working in a small decoration company. First, he taught painting autodidact in. In 1959 he went to Milan to study with Gino Moro at the art school of the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera .

In the cultural center of Milan's Isola district, he first took part in a number of group exhibitions. He had his first solo exhibition in 1969 in the “Sassetti” gallery in Via Paracelso . In 1976 he moved into a studio in Via Bolzano , which was made available to him by an undertaker and art lover named Luigi Fossati, and later by his son Marco Fossati. A series of first important works was created here. His ceramic works are also shaped by experiences that he gained during study visits to Spain in the early 1980s, where he also exhibited in several cities.

In 2015 he had 84 solo exhibitions in Italy. Among other things, together with the photographer Steve McCurry at the Swiss headquarters of Leo Burnett in Lausanne . Works by Pettinicchio can be found in seven European museums, for example the Museo de Bellas Artes de Asturias in Oviedo and the Museo de Arte Moderno y Contemporáneo de Santander y Cantabria , Santander , Spain .

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1972: “La Permanente”, LXXII Mostra Annuale d'Arte della regione Lombardia, Milan
  • 1982: “Scultura all 'aperto”, Pagani Museum, Castellanza
  • 1982: VIII Bienal Internacional del Deporte en Las Bellas Artes (BIDA), Madrid , Spain
  • 1982: Museo de Arte Moderno y Contemporáneo de Santander y Cantabria, Santander, Spain
  • 1983: Museo de Bellas Artes de Asturias, Oviedo, Spain
  • 1983: Casa de la Cultura, Avilés , Spain
  • 1983: Arteder '83, Bilbao , Spain
  • 1985: Arte Fiera, Bologna , Spain

literature

  • Roberto Sanesi: Umberto Pettinicchio. Laboratorio delle Arti, 1979.
  • Flaminio Gualdoni; Roberto Sanesi: Umberto Pettinicchio. Two-volume work (Volume 1: “1968–1979”, Volume 2: “1980–1992”), Laboratorio delle Arti, 1992.

Catalogs

  • Umberto Pettinicchio ; on the occasion of the exhibition in the Museo de Bellas Artes de Asturias in Oviedo, March 1983.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Elvira Carella: Le colline della Brianza ei suoi stupendi campanili sono la mia ispirazione. Il Giorno, January 31, 2010.
  2. ↑ Umberto Pettinicchio. In: MilanoArtDesign nhow Exhibition, Milan, 2015, pp. 24–25.
  3. ↑ Viganò Brianza: Umberto Pettinicchio - Metafore Poetiche. Artribune, November 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Pettinicchio, Umberto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian painter and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH June 30, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Torremaggiore