ITALIAN CONTEMPORARY ART EXHIBITION – ALBERTO BURRI, ENRICO PAULUCCI, WALTER PIACESI

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An exhibition of contemporary Italian art presents three graphic works by well-known Italian artists. Modernist Alberto Burri is the most internationally renowned of these. Enrico Paulucci is a colourful landscape painter and Walter Piacesi a full-blooded, expressive draughtsman.

ALBERTO BURRI was born in 1915 in Cittádi Castello. Burri’s graphic production began in the late 1950s, when he began to explore the possibilities of graphic techniques, building on his earlier work as a painter. A close link between painting and graphic art is therefore evident throughout Burri’s production. The exhibition presents a large collection of Alberto Burri’s prints from the late 1950s to the late 1970s.

ENRICO PAULUCCI was born in Genoa in 1901, but moved to Turin with his family when he was still at school. Paulucci had a brief Futurist period, but especially since the late 1920s he has been closely associated with French Impressionist and subsequent painting. He was particularly interested in the latest works by Picasso, Matisse, Dufy and Braque at a time when these artists were still largely unknown in Italy. Paulucci has been Professor of Painting at the Accademia Albertina since 1939, then Head of Department.

WALTER PIACESI is a painter, engraver and designer. He was born in Ascoli Piceno in 1929 and currently lives in Fermignano. He is professor of copperplate engraving at the Urbino Art Institute. Walter Piacesi’s work is characterised by a moral commentary on the suffering of people and animals, on the pain of nature and of the world – he wants to understand and to make others understand and help those who suffer. Although this ever-topical theme is depicted with a veiled subtlety, the works do not leave the viewer indifferent.

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