Sculpture Program, Princeton University,
Maryland Institute of Art, School of Visual Arts.
He currently is an occasional instructor at art
schools in the US and Europe. His work has
been presented at Documenta 6 (1977) and at
the Venice Biennale (American Pavilion) in
1980. His art is represented in many private
and public collections.
Lucio Pozzi
Lucio Pozzi was born in 1935 in Milan, Italy.
After living a few years in Rome, where he
studied architecture, he came to the United
States in 1962, as a guest of the Harvard
International Summer Seminar. He then settled
in New York and took the US citizenship. He
now shares his time between his Hudson (NY)
and Valeggio s/M (VR) studios.
In 1978 the Museum of Modern Art, New York,
exhibited his early videotapes in one of the
first single-artist exhibitions of the Projects:
Video series. He occasionally writes and has
taught at the Cooper Union, Yale Graduate
“The Next 475 Years Of My Art And Life” is
both a lecture and a work of art. I have
delivered it for about thirty years always with
the same title. Even though it contains a fixed
nucleus of images, it changes over the years
according to circumstances. In this event I
move constantly and hop from one idea to the
next not so much to explain but rather to
trace the evolution of a way of thinking about
art. I describe how I have turned upside down
the canons of my generation’s Conceptual and
Analytic art so as to make of them a point of
departure instead of a point of arrival. Since
then I live my art at the widest range, in all
its possibilities. I have chosen to seek the
intensity of inspiration by structuring a
practice of continuous shifts from one mode
of art making to the next. I believe that
coherence of style and meaning does not
depend on formula but surfaces uncalculated
in the practice of the artist.”
Lucio Pozzi | April 2018
Diaspora
Acrylic on plywood
Size variable - a proxy artwork | 2018
luciopozzi.com
Change language