Paolo Scheggi (Florence, 1940 – Rome, 1971) was an Italian artist. Born in Setignano (municipality of Florence) in 1940, he trained at the National Academy of Art and the Academy of Fine Arts of the city. In 1960 he founded the art and literature magazine Il malinteso. Read the full biography
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Paolo Scheggi (Florence, 1940 – Rome, 1971) was an Italian artist. Born in Setignano (municipality of Florence) in 1940, he trained at the National Academy of Art and the Academy of Fine Arts of the city. In 1960 he founded the art and literature magazine Il malinteso. In 1961 he moved to Milan and became part of the Milanese cultural scene. His highly interdisciplinary research addresses issues related to visual perception and the integration between real and virtual space. His experimental partners include Vincenzo Agnetti, Agostino Bonalumi, Enrico Castellani, Dadamaino, etc. Scheggi reinterprets the spatialism of Lucio Fontana, which he presents in an exhibition at the Galleria Il Cancello in Bologna in 1962. Communication and cooperation with international groups (Gruppo Nul, Gruppo Zero, Nove Tendencjie) are also important. In 1965 he joined the editorial staff of Marcatré magazine. His activity alternated between early paintings of objects with modular elements and surfaces or reflections, and all of his studies used monochrome. In 1966 he was present at the Thirty-third Venice Biennale, where he exhibited four curved surfaces in white, yellow, red and blue, and at the XXI Salon de Realités Nouvelles at the Musée d'Art Moderne in Paris. The environment is also important, which motivates him to collaborate with the world of fashion, theatre, cinema: in these environments the modularity of his paintings extends to the spaces, for example the plastic room set up at the Galleria del Naviglio in Milan in 1967. In the same year he exhibited in the Foligno exhibition "Spazio dell' Immagine". In the last years of his life, in addition to continuing his studies on the broader procedural nature of the work (this was the period of the modular paper), Scheggi approached the field of theater and entertainment, engaging in public events and conducting conceptual experiments of his own. In 1969 he was appointed Chair of Formal Psychology at the Academy of Fine Arts of L'Aquila. In 1970 he participated in the collective Amore mio organized by Achille Bonito Oliva at Palazzo Ricci in Montepulciano, aimed at documenting installations and environmental claims. In the same year we find him in the negative dynamism in Italian art of 1960/1970, in Rome he represented, together with Castellani, Colombo and De Vecchi, an artistic line based on environmental results. After his death in Rome in 1971, Chegi's last work was exhibited at the Venice Biennale in 1972 and 1976 (G. Celant, Environment / Art from Futurism to Body Art). In the same year the Gallery of Modern Art of Bologna organized a retrospective of the artist.
