Alfredo Pizzo Greco Biography
Alfredo Pizzo Greco (Palermo, 1 August 1942 – Suisio, 30 December 2013) was an Italian artist. He was born in Palermo in 1942, and moved to Milan in 1945. Here he grew up and attended the Brera Academy where he trained under the guidance of his Master: the painter Usellini. Lucio Fontana and Giò Ponti are its promoters, together with the Galleria Minima Toninelli, the Galleria Del Milione, the Galleria Grossetti, the Galleria Cadario, the Galleria Monte Napoleone, the Galleria Vismara, and others. In 1965 he was a teacher of Plastic Disciplines at the Barabino Art School in Genoa and, at the same time, he opened an Industrial Design studio in Milan in Via Melone (via Brera) intended for sector design, founding and registering the "Ind'Art-Design" trademark. ” with which he gives life to works and collections produced by: Zanotta, Gabbianelli, Gavina, Poltronova, Acerbis, Bonacina and others. From here, in addition to his artistic activity, he opened a research and study sector in his atelier for materials applied to the furnishing accessories and lighting industry, also designing and creating public spaces and private homes. In 1980 from Via Dante, in Milan, he moved his laboratories and exhibition spaces to Suisio (Bg), founding an Academy of Art and Entertainment, frequently moving to Los Angeles (USA) in his atelier, where he has operated since 1989 with personal exhibitions, for which we remember the presentations of Giuseppe Panza di Biumo and Rossana Bossaglia. He was appointed "Ambassador for World Peace", awarded to him in 1989 by the city of Hiroshima (Japan), where he presided over the international Forum "The Civilization of Living: meeting between Art and Project", also exposing himself with the performance, in action with fire: "meeting between East and West". Among other international awards, we remember the prestigious award from the Pollock and Krasner Foundation in New York of the year 2005. He died in Suisio on 30 December 2013.
