Pizzichini Carlo

Carlo Pizzichini was born in Monticiano (Siena) in 1962. Carlo recognized his artistic vocation from a very young age, thanks to his father Bruno, a mural decorator and painter, who was an example and stimulus for him and wanted a regular and complete education for him.

In 1981 Carlo Pizzichini graduated with honors from the State Institute of Art in Siena and in 1985 with honors from the State Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, at the school of the painter Prof. Roberto Giovannelli, distinguishing himself as one of the best students, winning merit selections and national awards. An exhilarating journey of conquest of the pictorial profession follows, with a path that took place favoring the research and the explication of the formal and expressive potential of the sign.

Carlo Pizzichini began his professional career at a very young age, obtaining numerous awards and work assignments from institutions, banks and religious institutions. The numerous travels, personal exhibitions, the meeting with the Swiss sculptor Kurt Laurenz Meztler, the ateliers in Zurich and Canton Ticino, as well as that of his beloved Siena, allow him to constantly deal with different cultures and techniques.

Pizzichini discovers bronze and patinas, creating some small and large bronzes, concrete examples of a natural passage of Pizzichini’s stylistic code from painting to a new and different material.

In 1989, the meeting with the Savonese painter Beppe Schiavetta took him to Liguria and made him discover ceramics; since then he will constantly work on this primary material: initially in the two Albisole and then at the “Il Tondo” furnace in Celle Ligure, where the Mannuzza family will constantly interpret Pizzichini’s formal and decorative inventions, following him step by step in his successful creations.

Since then, he has assiduously frequented the Savona area, exhibiting regularly in numerous spaces and galleries, verifying his work and making friends with local artists whose skills and experience in working with ceramics he admires.

His free and personal language is at the same time attentive to events and capable, if stimulated with deep motivations, of always renewing itself. Direct “shorthand”, the fragrance of sensations and emotions, calligraphy and the most subtle artifices of aesthetic taste meet in Pizzichini with natural elegance, never held back by affectedness and sophistication. In recent years Carlo Pizzichini, on behalf of the Higher Artistic and Musical Education has held positions of Professor of Painting Techniques Course in the State Academies of Bologna, Florence, Carrara and currently holds the chair of Painting at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan.

In 2014 he was appointed Member of the prestigious Academy of Design Arts in Florence and subsequently Member of the Scientific Committee of the Italian Institute of Design in Perugia. For ten years he was artistic director of the “Premio Arte dei Vasai” of the Nobile Contrada del Nicchio in Siena. He is the artistic director of the Celle Ligure Biennial of Ceramics and since 2021 he has been the artistic director of Forme nel Verde, the fiftieth anniversary of the contemporary art exhibition in San Quirico d’Orcia.
The collaboration with Violetti Arte Contemporanea began in 2010 and in that same year the exhibition of the masters Carlo Pizzichini and Gianfranco Meggiato “Black and Gold” was inaugurated in Siena and then in Venice.

He has made solo and group exhibitions and commissioned works in Italy, Switzerland, Germany, America, Russia, China, France, Egypt, Spain, Poland, Madagascar.

Pagina del meriggio

Mixed media on canvas – cm. 120 x 120

Orizzonti

Mixed media on canvas – cm. 100 x 100

Siena Tribù

Mixed media on canvas – cm. 120 x 120

Paesaggio senese

Acrylic and enamel on canvas – cm. 80 x 100

Tanana be

Mixed media on canvas – cm. 100 x 100

Micromacro cosmo

Mixed media on panel – diam. cm. 160

Senza titolo

Mixed media on canvas – cm. 60 x 60