Pino Pascali was born in Bari in 1935.
Performer, graphic designer, set designer, and best known as a sculptor, he was the most famous 20th-century artist from Puglia.
Origins
He trained at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, where he gained attention as a set designer.
After creating sketches, drawings, and shorts for several RAI TV broadcasts, he started painting in a neo-Realistic vein and then turned his attention to New Dada and Pop Art.
Reliefs at the Galleria La Tartaruga
At La Tartaruga gallery, he designed an exhibition of his reliefs. The exhibition was not a collection of sculptures, but an artwork until itself that came into a relationship with visitors and the space around it.
This situated it within a vein of work that started with Duchamp’s Urinal (1917) and through the Totemmade in Schwitters’ home in the mid-1930s and Lucio Fontana’s Black Room from 1949. It invites artists to shift their attention from the object in itself to the relationship it forms with the space around it and the viewer. This was the start of the practice of art installations.
Installations
Art installations are works conceived in relation to the space where they are set and their surroundings; they are artworks conceived as complete environments.
Pascali’s installations
Pino Pascali just took these experiments further, adding a distinct Italianness to the environments he shaped. Consisting of sculptures depicting the Colosseum, ruins of columns and a tuff wall, the space is a playful tribute to the history and culture of Rome rather than to the typical objects of mass media culture rendered “sacred” in American Pop Art.
He was helped by Plinio De Martiis who suggested he erase ‘Souvenir of Rome’ from his Colosseum as too similar to the words on the works of Lichtenstein.
Pino Pascali worked in series, based on inventive cycles. This was one of his unique qualities; once he had used up an idea, he never returned to it.
He created series of white animals, large simulacra on curved canvases: whales, dinosaurs, giraffes, whale tails, and sea waves.
Pino Pascali at the Venice Biennale
Pino Pascali’s star rose in 1968 when Palma Bucarelli introduced him at the Venice Biennale with a room in the central pavilion.
After his death in September 1968 in a motorcycle accident, he was awarded the International Prize for sculpture. It was the first time Biennale awarded a non-living artist.
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