Lucio Del Pezzo (Naples, 13 December 1933) One of the founders of the Gruppo 58 of Naples, with a neo-Surrealist and neo-Dadaist approach, he also collaborated with the magazine Documento Sud. His works from the period 1958-1960 proposed assemblages of various objects, including fragments of popular prints and images. Read the full biography
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Lucio Del Pezzo (Naples, 13 December 1933) One of the founders of the Gruppo 58 of Naples, with a neo-Surrealist and neo-Dadaist approach, he also collaborated with the magazine Documento Sud. His works from the period 1958-1960 proposed assemblages of various objects, including fragments of popular prints and images. In 1960 he moved to Paris, then to Milan, where several monographic exhibitions were dedicated to him (the first in 1974). Starting from 1962, Del Pezzo created his typical repertoire of "paintings" or "sculptures", made up of monochrome geometric panels, on which shelves or hollowed-out concavities are inserted, which support regular geometric objects (skittles, wooden eggs, bowls, mannequins, etc.) sometimes very colourful. The playful aspect is always present in his object-paintings and in his assemblages. Due to the ironic tone and the use of decontextualized everyday objects, these works refer to Pop Art; but there is a clear recovery of De Chirico, Carrà and Morandi (Motivo, 1967), and of the geometries of metaphysical painting.