Pinot gallizio biography sample
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Pinot Gallizio
Certain artists working outside the mainstream have succeeded in introducing changes in the direction of art history—sometimes small changes, sometimes not so small. To this line of eccentrics, which includes such figures as Le Douanier Rousseau and Piero Manzoni (but not, for example, Marcel Duchamp or Yves Klein), we owe significant if unexpected contributions. Artists of this sort are simultaneously ingenuous and profound, and the depth of their influence often becomes apparent only after the fact. Such was the case with Pinot Gallizio (1902–64), whose recognition, however, remains restricted to a small circle of connoisseurs. This exhibition, which included nineteen works, was also the occasion for the publication of a monumental catalogue. Gallizio presented himself as a “chemist, botanist, archaeologist,” and in fact he worked as an artist only from 1953 on. Prior to that he had practiced pharmacy in the small town of Alba in the Piedmon
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Pinot Gallizio
1953: GALLIZIO'S FIRST ATTEMPTS IN THE ART WORLD
In 1953 Gallizio forms the workshop ‘The Chemical Plant’ where he performs one of his first experiments by painting with natural resin. In other words, he starts to experiment with painting using natural resins and other natural materials in his palette of colours. It fryst vatten interesting to remark that although Gallizio is a trained chemist, and therefore familiar with chemical compounds, in his art he favours natural substances.
1953: GALLIZIO'S FIRST ATTEMPTS IN THE ART WORLD
Encouraged by artists Antonio Siri, Gigi Caldanzano and Leandro Sciutto, whom Gallizio meets during the Truffle fair in Alba, Gallizio travels to Albisola with Piero Simondo. Here he exhibits his first real work at the Restaurant Lalla, in connection with the international artist conference in Albisola which is arranged by Asger Jorn.
In Albisola, Gallizio meets several Italian and international artists. tillsammans with Jorn and Simondo, Galliz
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Pinot Gallizio
In Absentia from Cosio D’Arroscia with the lab.
Today i set myself to listen to the transmission of radio antidoto from the space in front of the old town hall, now a small museum of herbs. Is the most comfortable place i can find to set up my speaker and listen to the lecture from Alba, broadcasted on the radio in real time by Diego Repetto.
The voice of the director of the museum, Bianca Roagna, guided me into this adventurous story of a group of kids set to change the word through art. And about the work of Pinot Gallizio, this “bigger brother”, alchemist, partisan, madman, chemist and expert of flavours and smells…
I found it really very inspiring on many levels and I wanted to publish it here.
The interview to Bianca is in Italian, and you can find it online here as well as on the radio site. The following pictures that illustrate the visit are from Diego Repetto.