Massimo Pulini Biography
Massimo Pulini (1958 - ) was born in Cesena in 1958, lives and works between Montiano and Rimini. He is a professor of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna. Since 1976 he has exhibited his paintings in important private and public galleries, both Italian and international. He has exhibited several times in Paris at the Lavigne Bastille and Vandôme Galleries. At the beginning of the 1980s he participated in fundamental exhibitions curated by the critics Maurizio Calvesi, Italo Tomassoni, Marisa Vescovo, Rossana Bossaglia, Paolo Portoghesi and Italo Mussa, who were at the origin of artistic groupings, variously defined: Anachronists, Hypermannerists, Painting Cultured or New Italian Way. In the mid-eighties, after having held a personal room at the designed by Philip Johnson. These experiences led Massimo Pulini to face a long journey of individual research, always in dialogue with the History of Painting and with memory, which led him to hold vast personal exhibitions in Italian, French and English museums. For example, in 2000 he was invited to set up his 'picture gallery' of works at the important retrospective exhibition on the "Italian twentieth century", held at the Papal Scuderie del Quirinale with the care of Maurizio Calvesi and Paul Ginsborg. In 2006 the Italian Cultural Institute in London, following the recommendation of Sir Denis Mahon, the great scholar of Italian Baroque, organized a large solo exhibition for him with the publication of two volumes. From June 2011 until January 2019 he took on a civil responsibility commitment at the Municipal Administration of Rimini and promoted the Biennale Disegno, curating three editions of what has already stood out as the largest international exhibition dedicated to art of Drawing, ancient and contemporary.
