Vettor Pisani Biography
Vettor Pisani (Ischia, July 1934 – Rome, 22 August 2011) was an Italian artist, architect and playwright. Vettor Pisani was born in Ischia in July 1934. In 1970 he moved to Rome and made his debut at the La Salita gallery in Rome with his first solo exhibition: the cycle of works Studies on Marcel Duchamp (1965), which earned him a certain notoriety. Precisely in 1970 he obtained the Pino Pascali Prize awarded by the National Gallery of Modern Art and began his activity in the theater creating some sets. In 1976 he presented the work Theatrum at the Venice Biennale - his first time -, anticipating a research that would continue throughout the course of his artistic career. The artist sees in the labyrinth an analogue of reality, according to a hermetic and esoteric culture that belongs to the three artists to whom he dedicates his work - Duchamp, Klein, Beuys - who form with him a system based on the hermetic number four. His method consists in appropriating elements taken from other artists and from the history of art, reinventing them: he creates through quotation, putting under analysis not the world, but the language. In addition to the Venice Biennale of 1976, Pisani participated in those of 1978, 1984, 1986, 1990 and 1995, at the Rome Quadrennials of 1973, 1986 and 1992 and, among many, in exhibitions such as Avanguardia/Transavantgarde in Rome and Italian Art Now: an American Perspective at the Guggenheim Museum in New York in 1982. In that year the Museum Folkwang of Essen dedicated an anthological exhibition to him, followed by those organized in 1990 in Valencia and by the Galleria Civica d'Arte Contemporanea of Trento in 1992. In 1997 he was present at the exhibition "Italian Painting from Italian Collections" at the Castello di Rivoli. Participates in "Minimalia. From Giacomo Balla to..." (1997 - 2000, Venice, Palazzo Querini Dubois; Rome, Palazzo delle Esposizioni; New York, PS1) curated by Achille Bonito Oliva. After a period of rest, he returned to the stage in 2005 with Beauty and the Beasts at the MART in Rovereto. In 2007 with "L'Isola Inner. Isolamenti e Follia", curated by Achille Bonito Oliva, he participated as a collateral event at the Venice Biennale. In 2009 he participated with the work "Invisible Concert by Gino De Dominicis" in the opening exhibition of the Fondazione Galleria Civica di Trento and with "Venere di Cioccolato" in the exhibition Inganni ad arte. Wonders of trompe l'oeil from ancient to contemporary at Palazzo Strozzi in Florence.
