Galleria Granelli is pleased to present the online exhibition dedicated to Lamberto Pignotti. A collection of works created from 1945 until the 2000s; from collages, to souvenirs, to postage stamps, to decompositions up to the protagonist works of the performances. Authentic rarities, nowhere to be found in the art market

Pignotti, Lamberto. – Italian poet and artist (b. Florence 1926). Professor at the University of Florence and then from 1971 at the DAMS of the University of Bologna, he was one of the founders of Gruppo 70 and, shortly after, of Gruppo 63. He is one of the creators and theorists of the so-called visual poetry that starting from the surrealist base, neo Dada and Pop, makes use of different linguistic and perceptive codes.

Thus were born the collages composed of scraps of writing and photos taken from the world of the mass media in which the images, decontextualized, summarize their meaning in their immediacy, deviating from the flattening and addiction of the original message.

A supporter of multi-sensory art, he has been the protagonist of numerous performances.

Author of essays and poetic collections, we remember: How are things (1959); Views (1982); Around the World (1987); Odyssey (1994); Otherwise (2001); Converging Scriptures. Literature and mass media (2005); Verbovisual and synaesthetic writing (2011).

LAMBERTO PIGNOTTI – biography

Italian poet and artist. Born in 1926 in Florence, his father, an appreciated post-Macchiaioli painter, will be a point of reference for him, he graduated in Florence in 1968. He became a professor at the University of Florence at the faculty of architecture and then from 1971 at the DAMS of the University of Bologna.

He was one of the founders of Gruppo 70 and, shortly after, of Gruppo 63. He is one of the creators and theorists of the so-called visual poetry that, starting from the surrealist, neo Dada and Pop base, makes use of different linguistic and perceptive codes.

His artistic work proceeds by relating signs and codes of different origins: linguistic, visual, hearing, taste, smell, touch, behavior, entertainment.

From this broad multimedia and synaesthetic activity, the “Poems and no”, the “cine-poems”, the logo-musical cassettes, the object books, the poems to touch, to drink, to eat, the “chewing poems” and “Visual poems” in the form of collages or interventions on news, fashion and advertising photos. His collages are famous, composed of scraps of writing and photos taken from the world of mass media in which the images, decontextualized, summarize their meaning in their immediacy, deviating from the flattening and addiction of the original message.

A supporter of multi-sensory art, he has been the protagonist of numerous performances.

At the same time, he has very extensive publicity activities in the field of poetry, fiction and non-fiction, as well as having collaborated with national newspapers, cultural programs and curated visual poetry exhibitions, art reviews, debates, festivals and cultural conferences.

He has participated as an artist in the most important international art exhibitions such as the XXXIV Venice Biennale, 1968; XXXVI Venice Biennale, 1972; Italian Visual Poetry 1912-1972, New York, 1973; Art in Italy 1960-1977, Turin, 1977; XXXIX Venice Biennale, 1978; The Visual Poetry, Florence 1979; Xi Quadriennale of Rome 1986; the Quadrennial of Rome, the Biennial of San Paolo. At the Pompidou Center in Paris, a personal exhibition as part of the Extra Festival, 2018.

Author of essays and poetic collections, we remember: How are things (1959); Views (1982); Around the World (1987); Odyssey (1994); Otherwise (2001); Converging Scriptures. Literature and mass media (2005); Verbovisual and synaesthetic writing (2011).