Piero Pizzi Biography
Piero Pizzi Cannella (Rocca di Papa, 20 November 1955) is an Italian artist and painter. In the 1970s he attended Alberto Ziveri's lessons at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome and enrolled in the degree course in Philosophy at La Sapienza University, without finishing his studies. In this period he deals with conceptual art. From the beginning he participated in the activities of the neo-avant-garde of La Stanza, a Roman gallery managed by a group of artists including Bruno Ceccobelli, Giuseppe Gallo, Stefano Di Stasio. There he held his first solo exhibition in 1977 and a conceptual installation in 1978. In 1980 he took part in an anachronistic collective exhibition at the La Tartaruga gallery in Rome. In 1984, together with Bruno Ceccobelli and Marco Tirelli, he created the Nuova Scuola Romana or Scuola di San Lorenzo at the Pastificio Cerere where Giuseppe Gallo, Gianni Dessì and Nunzio Di Stefano already worked. In that period he exhibited figurative paintings at the Attico gallery in Rome and on numerous occasions at Annina Nosei Gallery in New York, Galerie Folker Skulima in Berlin, Galerie Triebold in Basel, works focused on the evocation of the human figure through everyday objects decontextualized, such as furniture, clothing, accessories. He takes part in numerous events and collective exhibitions: Biennial of Paris and Sao Paulo in Brazil (1985); Sydney Biennial (1986), XI and XII Rome Quadrennial (1986 and 1996); Venice Biennale (1988, 1993 and 2011); Istanbul Biennial (1989). He lives and works in Rome.
