Diego Pierpaoli Biography
Diego Pierpaoli (1940 - 2023) Originally from Ascoli, he had chosen the Piceno village, later devastated by the earthquake, as the place in which to give vent to his creativity and expressiveness. Painter, sculptor, essayist, poet and musician, he is the leader among the founders of the artistic movement called Immanentism. He was born in Ascoli Piceno and spent his childhood here, graduating from the Francesco Stabili classical high school. After graduating in Law from the University of Macerata, he worked first as an employee in an office of the Municipality of Ascoli Piceno and later as a professor of law in the Umberto I° Technical Institute for Commercial and Surveyors; until 1984 when, having earned his retirement pension, he retired to Arquata del Tronto in the inherited house which he would later transform into Villa Papi. In 1968, at the age of twenty-eight, he experienced the artistic vitality of Ascoli in that period, satisfying his own prerogatives and artistic interests by forming a friendship with Alvaro Pespani and others of the Nuove Proposte group. After these first experiences, the new "8 G" group found its headquarters in via Ceci; the profitable activity will see the organization of both national and international exhibitions and connections with the creative evolution of those years. In 1972-73 the introductory intuition to the theory of immanentism was born in him: the figures and naturalistic references were abstracted in an almost transcendent celebration of a new philosophical understanding. In his artistic career he goes through an evolution from the German avant-garde (Kandinsky and Klee) to the Castelluccio fields, then to figurative abstraction through atmosphere and depth.
