Lucio Del Pezzo (13 December 1933 - 12 April 2020) was an Italian artist, painter and sculptor.

Biography

Del Pezzo was born on December 13, 1933, in

Naples Naples ( ; ; ) is the Regions of Italy, regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 908,082 within the city's administrative limits as of 2025, while its Metropolitan City of N ...

. In 1960, he moved to

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, then to

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, where he held several solo exhibitions. In 1964, he held an exhibition, ''Labirinto del tempo libero,'' at the

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and the

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. In 1967, he participated in an exhibition in the Kruger Gallery in

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, where he exhibited together with

Giorgio de Chirico Giuseppe Maria Alberto Giorgio de Chirico ( ; ; 10 July 1888 – 20 November 1978) was an Italian artist and writer born in Greece. In the years before World War I, he founded the art movement, which profoundly influenced the surrealists. His ...

, and other Italian artist. In 1988, he participated in a group exhibited at the Palace of Arts in Moscow, together with other Italian artists. In 2001 he designed some ceramic reliefs and a bronze for two stations on the new Naples underground. Lucio Del Pezzo passed away in Milan on April 12, 2020.

References

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