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Biography
Italian painter and décollagist. He studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Naples and, in 1945, moved to Rome where he began painting along Expressionist lines. In 1948, he adopted a geometrical abstract idiom which he finally rejected, in 1952, on his return to Italy after having studied in the United States for a year. Around 1954, he gave up painting for a new technique, décollage, which often included films and posters. In 1955, he took part in the exhibition, Esposizione d'arte attuale that led to his being considered a neo-dadaist. In the same year, he had a one-man show at the Galleria del Naviglio in Milan, which was followed by others in London, Venice and Zurich. In 1961, he was invited to join the group Nouveau Réalisme, which included other décollage artists. After 1960, he focused on poster images, especially those advertising consumer goods or the cinema, which introduced a theme very close to American and British Pop Art of the same period. In 1964, he settled in Paris and produced what he called reportages, photographs projected on a canvas sensitised with photographic emulsion. In the 80s, he returned to décollage, generally combining posters slashed with paint or completely blotting them out with glued bits of paper. He can be considered one of the greatest exponents of Nouveau Réalisme.
Exhibitions
Uma Escolha numa Colecção Particular Galeria Valentim de Carvalho, Portugal 08-07-1993 ~ 28-07-1993
Nova Apresentação da Colecção Berardo Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 08-11-1999 ~ 01-03-2000
Colecção Berardo - Arte Pop & Ca. Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 19-04-2002 ~ 15-09-2002
Pop Art & Co. - The Berardo Collection - Sintra Museum of Modern Art (Gunma) The Museum of Modern Art (Gunma), Japan 19-02-2005 ~ 27-03-2005
Pop Art & Co. - The Berardo Collection - Sintra Museum of Modern Art (Hiroshima) Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan 29-05-2005 ~ 10-07-2005
Pop Art & Co. - The Berardo Collection - Sintra Museum of Modern Art (Kochi) The Museum of Art (Kochi), Japan 03-04-2005 ~ 22-05-2005
Pop Art & Co. - The Berardo Collection - Sintra Museum of Modern Art (Nagoya) Nagoya City Art Museum, Japan 10-09-2005 ~ 30-10-2005
Pop Art & Co. - The Berardo Collection - Sintra Museum of Modern Art (Tokyo) The Bunkamura Museum of Art, Japan 06-11-2004 ~ 26-12-2004
Pop Art & Co. - The Berardo Collection - Sintra Museum of Modern Art (Osaka) Daimaru Museum, (Umeda, Osaka), Japan 19-01-2005 ~ 06-02-2005
Pop Art & Co. - The Berardo Collection - Sintra Museum of Modern Art (Sapporo) Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art (Sapporo), Japan 26-07-2005 ~ 28-08-2005
Novas Salas Pop, Fluxus, Foto-Realismo Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 09-06-1997 ~ 28-02-1998
Tudo o que é Sólido Museu Colecção Berardo, Portugal 07-06-2010 ~ 12-09-2010
Bibliography
Colecção Berardo - Art Pop & Ca., 2002 Published by Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo ISBN 9729742873
Liberdade de Imprensa Colecção Berardo, 2006 Published by Diário de Notícias ISBN 9729335923
Pop Art & Co. - The Berardo Collection - Sintra Museum of Modern Art, 2004 Published by TBS Television, INC.
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