Oscar Piattella Biography
Oscar Piattella (1932 - ) Born in Pesaro in 1932, since 1957 he lived and worked in Cantiano, his wife's hometown. Graduated in Urbino in 1955 in Pharmacy, Oscar Piattella was among the protagonists of the Italian artistic renewal of the 1950s, together with other personalities such as Arnaldo and Giò Pomodoro, Giuliano Vangi, Loreno Sguanci, Nanni Valentini, to whom he was linked by an intense friendship. From his figurative beginnings, he moved his research towards the Informal movement, which in those years was beginning to spread across Europe. Already in the second half of the 1950s he began to exhibit in prestigious exhibitions in Italy and abroad, meeting artists of the caliber of Alberto Burri, Lucio Fontana, Enrico Castellani. In 1958, Franco Russoli, then director of the Pinacoteca di Brera, organized an exhibition of his at the Galleria L'Ariete in Milan. His work unfolded, during the 1960s and 1970s, in a completely autonomous and solitary way but never separated from the contemporary European research to which Piattella looked with extreme attention. Many participations in international events and personal exhibitions, including Milan (1958, 1968, 1973, 1975), Rome (1960, 1970, 1971, 1978, 1980, 1987), Turin (1973), Urbino (1987, 2017), Bologna (1988), Paris (1989, 1997), Perugia (1991, 2019), Taiwan (1997, 2000), Genoa (1998), Pesaro (1982, 2002, 2020), Tours (2006), Gubbio (2010), Tournay (2013), Monte Vidon Corrado (2016).
