Roberto Fontirossi Biography
Roberto Fontirossi was born in Lucca on 26 January 1940.
From a young age, he showed a great interest in painting and, after having spent a period of teaching at the Art High School of his city, he decided to dedicate himself completely to art. In 1959, the meeting with the lawyer Ilo Giacomo Nunes, Superintendent and Inspector of Cultural Monuments of the Lazio Region, took him to Rome, where in 1961 his first personal exhibition was organized at the S. Salvatore in Lauro gallery in Rome. The artist likes to work in cycles and thus deal with different topics that come together around a narrative fabric.
Over the years, he obtained numerous prizes and recognitions, including the Prize for Black and White at the IX Quadrennial in Rome in 1964, the Visioni prize of Viareggio, the Primavera Tosca Sacenti prize in Florence and Rome, the Suzzara prize and the Diomira in Milan. He also collaborated, for a short period, in the creation of satirical and grotesque drawings of clear social commitment in various newspapers and magazines.
His works, present in important public and private collections, have been exhibited in numerous national and international places. Today, he lives and works in Lucca.
