Pippo Ciarlo Biography
Pippo Ciarlo (1949-2014) was born in Cuneo in 1949. A figurative artist with a strong vocation for drawing and painting, he exhibited his first works as early as 1964, when he was just fifteen, at the Il Punto gallery in Turin. In 1968 he obtained his artistic high school diploma. Teacher of drawing and art history at the Matteotti Institute in Settimo Torinese, from 1984 he also taught at the Social Activities Centers (Cedas). He was a painter, sculptor, photographer and humorous illustrator. For a short period he entered the advertising world. In 1979, he founded the Gilgamesh association, later GIL Group, with which he organized numerous reviews and exhibitions, both personal and collective. In 2001, he created the illustrations for the booklet The Library of Apopi, a guide to Egyptian culture intended for children, created by the Educational Services of the Egyptian Museum of Turin and the Association of Friends and Collaborators of the Egyptian Museum of Turin. His works appear permeated by a sense of subtle restlessness, by the charm of figures resolved between dream and memory, by those sensations that govern the formulation of the representation.
