Pino Procopio
Dreamlike visions - Florence Art Gallery 28 September - 12 October 2019
FLORENCE ART GALLERY presents a solo show of the Italian artist Pino Procopio, titled “Dreamlike visions”. On display for two weeks a selection of about thirtyfive works, in conjunction with the exhibition at Palazzo del Pegaso of Tuscany Region, Via Cavour, n. 8, Florence; the exhibition is organised under the patronage of Regional Council of Tuscany. Eugenio Giani, president of Tuscuny Region, will attend the opening. Also Pino Procopio, very popular in the Italian and foreign artistic world, will be present.
In front of Pino Procopio’s artworks we get amazed, surprised and impressed. With the rich cromatic range of his works, his fairy-tale, his funny, free, bulky but agile characters, Procopio renews in each of us the game, the carelessness and the amazement.
Riccardo Ferrucci states: “A crucial element in Pino Procopio’s work is the concept of play, almost all his paintings seem to spring out of the magic eyes of a child. […] His work is a sequence of stories, dreams, miracles, appearances; an imaginary theater able to embrace infinite chords, secret harmonies, diverse colors and emotions. Lines, colors, characters, spaces, and objects multiply emotions with total naturalness, with the rare capacity to evoke a tidy disorder, an illogic logic, the need to represent a multi-colored vision in a limited space.”
The solo show is part of the cycle of events called Un tè da Ristori.
The exhibited works are on sale and will be on display until 12 October 2019.
About the artist
Pino Procopio is a painter, sculptor and illustrator from Italy, an exponent of the representational art. Artistic studies started at the art school of Catanzaro, but completed in Rome, where in 1982 he graduated in Architecture at the University “La Sapienza”. He is one of the most important Italian painters on the contemporary scene, inspired by an inexhaustible imagination. In 2002 he made the painting for the poster of the “World Book and Copyright Day” organised by UNESCO. In 2003 the government monopolies commissioned him a painting that had to be put on the ticket of the European Lottery. In 2004 he made the painting that will be placed on the ticket of Lotteria Italia. In 2005 the Ministry of Communications promoted one of his exhibitions in Rome, about the evolution of the Italian postal service in 100 years of history. In 2008, in Rome, the Boncompagni-Ludovisi museum of the “Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea” (GNAM) organised “Ulisse, scene di un viaggio”. In the 2014 the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea” (GNAM) invited him to take part in the collective exhibition CORPORATE ART, which aims to represent the combination of art and industrial customers.
In 2017, with the patronage of UNESCO and MIUR, the exhibition “Baadaye, Pinocchio d’Africa” took place. It was a new modern version of the story of Pinocchio, linked to the tragedy of immigration.
In 2019, with the sponsorship of the Polo Museale della Puglia, he is invited to take part in the collective exhibition on the artist's book "Artist's Books. The art to read".
In 2019 the municipality of Ascoli Piceno commissioned him the realisation of the prestigious “Palio della Quintana” of the historical August joust.
