Roberto Patelli Biography
Paolo Patelli was born in Istria in 1934 and has lived in the Veneto region since the post-war period, currently in the province of Treviso. Graduated from the University of Padua, he taught painting at New York University, and was a lecturer or lecturer in Great Britain in Sheffield and Norwich. He held the chair of painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice and has been a professor of contemporary art history at the Cà Foscari University in Venice for some years. Since 1962 he has had around ninety personal exhibitions in Milan (Galleria del Milione, Galleria Vinciana, Galleria Plurima), Verona (Studio La città, tre tempi), Vienna (Gallery Nacht St. Stephan), Geneva (Galerie Blancpain - Stepcinski), Livorno (Peccolo gallery), Naples (Modern Art Agency of Lucio Amelio), Venice (Cavallino gallery - eight times), and other cities. He participated seven times in the Basel Fair, seven in the FIAC in Paris, six in the Cologne Fair, twelve in the Bologna Fair, and also in those of Madrid, Stockholm, Berlin, Zurich, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Bari, Brussels, Milan, Turin, Florence, Lausanne, Ostend, Dusseldorf. Since the beginning he has worked in the field of abstraction, close to analytical painting, and in the seventies he was associated with the so-called Pura Pittura line, and with his adherents he exhibited several times, although he differed in his propensity for gesture painting.