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Alfredo Rapetti (Milan, 1961). The painter's training began with his maternal grandfather, Alfredo De Pedrini, President of the Graphic Arts Association, who allowed him to associate with many Milanese painters. Read the full biography

Alfredo Rapetti (Milan, 1961). The painter's training began with his maternal grandfather, Alfredo De Pedrini, President of the Graphic Arts Association, who allowed him to associate with many Milanese painters. His pictorial activity began between the 60s and 70s, at the age of sixteen he attended the comics school in Milan for two years, developing different techniques and styles. Starting in 1966, he worked for four years with the masters Alessandro Algardi and Mario Arlati, in their studio in Via Nota, where he had the opportunity to combine his two great passions, painting and writing. His work therefore elaborates a mental and psychological aspect at the same time. The technique used is that of imputura which achieves the fusion between verbal and pictorial language by transferring the words onto canvas. We can therefore speak of a "pictorial writing": in 1998 a collaborative work began with the photographer Fabrizio Ferri and since 1999 he has exhibited his works in numerous personal and collective exhibitions which have met with great success among critics. Worthy of mention among the collective exhibitions are those held at the Museo della Permanente in Milan, at the Salon d'Automne, the Espace Charenton and Grand Palais in Paris, at the M'ARS Contemporary Art Museum, at Palazzo Strozzi in Florence and at the Riga Foreign Art Museum in Riga. Among the personal exhibitions are those at the Cà d'Oro Gallery in Rome, at the KPMG Foundation in Berlin, at the Maretti Arte MOnaco Gallery in Montecarlo, at Villa Olmo in Como, at the Albergo della Rovere di Palermo and at the Certosa di San Lorenzo in Padula di Salerno.