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Andrea Picini was born in Rome on 14 March 1935. In 1955 he moved to Paris, where he attended the Atelier des Beaux-Arts. Read the full biography

Andrea Picini was born in Rome on 14 March 1935. In 1955 he moved to Paris, where he attended the Atelier des Beaux-Arts. In 1957 he joined the Gruppe du Feu with Penalba, Szabo, Stalhy, Cardenas, Etienne, Martin. In 1959, in his early twenties, he made his debut as a painter and sculptor with his first solo exhibition at the Collette Allendy Gallery in Paris; in 1960 he held a second solo exhibition at the Gallerie La Cour Ingres in the same city. In 1960 he won the Prix Nazionale da la Sculpture and remained in the French capital until 1962. Having returned to Rome, he participated in the artistic life of the city without adhering to any specific current or label, maintaining a personal and autonomous position. In the 1960s he opened his studio in Trastevere on Corso Garibaldi, opposite the Antica Pesa restaurant. A decade later he moved to the center of Cantalupo in Sabina, renting the entire building of a former nursery school and concentrating on the execution of the entire Tarot series in 78 paintings. In the 1980s he returned permanently to Rome, opening the studio in Testaccio in via Giovanni da Castelbolognese 58, which would be his congenial place of life and artistic production until the end of his days: equipped as a laboratory, home and a very large collection of his best works, jealously kept for your enjoyment shared with selected friends, admirers, collectors. He travels a lot in Italy and abroad: his frequent destinations are Dalmatia, Syria, Egypt, Tunisia, India. He curates several personal exhibitions: in 1963 at the Jardin des Artes in Rome, in 1964 at the Galleria Maccagnani in Lecce, in 1966 at the University Center of Dunkerque, in 1970 at the Galleria Salaria in Milan and at the Galleria Rialto in Venice, in 1973 at the Gallery - Bookshop Eros of Milan, in 1998 in Sidi Bou Said in Tunisia, in 2002 in Bondeno of Ferrara. Since 1968 he has taken part in all the Erotic Art exhibitions held in Denmark, Sweden, Holland, Germany and the United States. He passed away in Rome on 29 December 2003.