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Pizzi Cannella: Earth, Sky and Sea

April 10, 2008—May 30, 2008

Piero Pizzi Cannella was among the young Italian artists of the 1970s who turned from the hard-edged rigors and austerity of Conceptual art and in the 1980s were deemed part of the Nuova Scuola Romana (New Roman School) and the Roman Gruppo di San Lorenzo.  After initially working in mixed media, Pizzi Cannella adopted painting.  Beginning in the mid-1980s, he began a series of works that set objects (dresses, stools, beds, doors, cathedrals) against unspecified, non-descript backgrounds.  The backgrounds were often scraped and reworked, the finished surfaces thick with paint, and the objects stood alone, as if fragments of memory that emerged involuntarily.  

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