Giuliano Pini Biography
Giuliano Pini was born in Florence in 1935. He left school early and, eager to find a path for himself, began to passionately draw the motorcycles he loved so much. While working as a petrol station attendant, he meets a traffic policeman who introduces him to a painter friend, Arrigo Dreoni, who invites him to his studio to breathe new atmospheres. In this atelier, he came into contact with other artists who encouraged him to improve his sign, leading him to frequent Professor Miniati's ceramic laboratory in Piazzale Michelangelo, a place frequented by many artists. In 1955, he participated in the exhibition-competition at Dante's House "Contemporary Portrait", and in 1957 he received the "Vincenzo Cabianca" prize for young painters. During the eighteen-month military period, Giuliano Pini met Xavier Bueno and the members of "Nuova Corrente", a movement that opposed informal abstract and intimate painting. In 1960, he participated in the group's first exhibition in the space in Via del Moro, while at the end of the same year he presented his first solo exhibition in the new headquarters in Piazza del Limbo with a series of drawings. The main theme of Pini's art is the human being with all his emotions, from pain to dreams and myths. Among his most important exhibitions are "Time has hands" in 1970, "The point to be reached" in 1979 with a text by Renzo Vespignani, "The building of the dream - Richard Wagner's opera enchantress" in 1982 at Palazzo dei Diamanti in Ferrara, "The roots of the cry" and "Flamenco" dedicated to Antonio Gades. In 1991, at the Melotti Art Studio in Ferrara, he presented "Ferrara: the myths, the characters, the ghosts". In May-June 1997, he was at the exhibition "Florence, the time of memory - Florentine chronicles" at the Istituto degli Innocenti in Florence. Pini's passion for music and theater is constant and real, and he died in 2017.
