Lucio Pozzi - Barocco (Baroque), 1987

Lucio Pozzi - Barocco (Baroque), 1987

Monoprint on paper
Unique
Signed, dated and titled in pencil on the front
with publisher's blindstamp on the front (shown)
Significance of the title - Barocco (Baroque):
The French philosopher Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592) helped to give the term baroco (spelled Barroco by him) the meaning 'bizarre, uselessly complicated'. Other early sources associate baroco with magic, complexity, confusion, and excess.
The term Baroque probably derived from the Italian word barocco, which philosophers used during the Middle Ages to describe an obstacle in schematic logic.
Unframed

LUCIO POZZI BIOGRAPHY
Lucio Pozzi (b. 1935) was born in Milan and moved to the United States in 1962 as a guest of the Harvard International Summer Seminar after studying architecture in Rome, Italy. His first of many exhibitions at Hal Bromm Gallery was in 1976. Though foremost a painter, Pozzi considers other media such as writing, drawing, and sculpture to be valuable tools and approaches to his art and creative process. Lucio has an extensive teaching career as well, having lectured at Cooper Union, Yale Graduate Sculpture Program, Princeton University, Maryland Institute of Art, and the School of Visual Arts NY. Pozzi currently splits his time between Hudson, NY and Valeggio, Italy.

Lucio Pozzi’s work can be found in the collections of The New York Public Library; The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; The Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; The Fogg Museum, Cambridge Mass.; Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy; Giuseppe Panza Di Biumo, Lugano, Switzerland; Herbert and Dorothy Vogel, New York; Museum of New Art, Detroit, MI.; Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, NJ.; Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, MI; Hartford Atheneum, Hartford, CT; Portofino Sculpture Museum, Italy; Museo de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, University of California Art Museum (Berkeley), Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida; Neuberger Museum, NY; Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy; Fondazione Cariverona, Verona, Italy; JeanPaul Najar collection, Dubai, and in various corporate collections.

In 1983, Lucio Pozzi was honored with a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and received a honorary degree of Master in Fine Arts from the Accademia di Verona in 2010. In 2015 he received the Premio Ciampi L’altrarte in Livorno, Italy and received the prestigious Lissone Career Award in 2018.

Retrospectives of Pozzi’s work were held at Kunsthalle Bielefeld (1982) and Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe (1983), Germany, and at the Museum of New Art (2001), Detroit, MI, Kalamazoo Institute of Art, Michigan (2002); Works on Paper, Mus. Contemp. Art, Genova Italy, 2005; Fabrikculture, Hegenheim (Basel), France (2011). His work has been presented at Documenta 6 (1977) and at the Venice Biennale (American Pavilion) in 1980.