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Pier Luigi Lavagnino (1933 - 1999) attended the Art School in Genoa. From the early fifties he began to paint, incessantly studying the great artists of the past, from Paul Cèzanne and the post-impressionists to the impressionists, from Courbet and Turner to the Dutch landscape painters of the seventeenth century. Read the full biography

Pier Luigi Lavagnino (1933 - 1999) attended the Art School in Genoa. From the early fifties he began to paint, incessantly studying the great artists of the past, from Paul Cèzanne and the post-impressionists to the impressionists, from Courbet and Turner to the Dutch landscape painters of the seventeenth century. He travels abroad to see works firsthand and meditates on contemporaries, especially the informal Jean Fautier and Nicolas De Stael. In 1956 he moved to Milan and began frequenting the Galleria Il Milione and met Renato Birolli and Ennio Morlotti. In 1958, thanks to Birolli's interest, he managed to set up the first exhibition at the Galleria Montenapoleone, together with other young artists. He establishes friendships with Della Torre, Chighine, Ossola, Ruggero Savinio, Forgioli, Olivieri, Guenzi. In 1959 Pier Luigi Lavagnino held his first solo exhibition at the Senatore Gallery in Stuttgart and in 1966 he was invited to the International Biennial of Fine Arts in Venice. The encounter with abstract expressionism in the United States, between 1973 and 1976, allowed him to think only about the painting and no longer about its function of representation. The first major anthological exhibition was held in 1992, organized by the Province of Reggio Emilia. In the nineties Lavagnino participated in important group exhibitions: Italian Landscapes (1991), L'opera su carta (1994), In Praise of Painting (1994), Painting as Painting (1995), Figures of Painting (1995), From Monet to Morandi, landscape of the spirit (1997), From Fattori to Burri (1998), Anteprima (1998), In Praise of Pastel (1999).