Piero Pizzicannella Biography
Piero Pizzi Cannella (1955 - ) was born in Rocca di Papa in 1955 and began painting at a very young age. From 1974 to 1977 he attended the painting course held by Alberto Ziveri at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome and, at the same time, he enrolled in the Philosophy course at the Sapienza University. Memory has been, for more than thirty years, the red thread of the artist's creative path, which is expressed with a refined and enigmatic language, full of cryptic signs, recurring symbolic traces with an almost esoteric meaning. With a full-bodied pictorial material, since the early 1980s Pizzi Cannella has concentrated on everyday domestic objects - such as jewellery, clothes, tables, dried flowers, chairs, fans, lizards or amphorae - devoid of any depth, immersed in an evanescent reality, to some metaphysical traits, in which the life and essence of a forgotten past, the nostalgias, dreams and collective memories of our present seem to metaphorically condense. In 1982 he established his studio in the former Cerere pasta factory, in the San Lorenzo district, giving life to the "Scuola di San Lorenzo" with Bruno Ceccobelli, Gianni Dessì, Giuseppe Gallo, Nunzio and Marco Tirelli, with whom he participated in numerous collective exhibitions , including Ateliers in 1984, curated by Achille Bonito Oliva. Over the years he has held several personal exhibitions in private galleries, in Italy and abroad.
