Born 1902 in Italy - died 1964.
Painter, sculptor
Education
He attends Saint College of Turin and later achieves a technical diploma. Later he enrolls to the Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy and becomes a pharmacist. He also had a huge interest for archaeology.
Biography
Birthname Giuseppe Pinot Gallizio (but only used Pinot Gallizio)..
A casual encounter with the artist Piero Simondo inspired him to pursue art with the same curiosity he had put into his research. Gallizio's paintings was created out of an enthusiastic discovery of art and its love of gesture and material. But in it he also rediscovered his scientific interests, and it was within this atmosphere of generous experimentalism that Gallizio conceived and created, among other things, works that made it possible to consider him a precursor to the makers of the happenings and environmental art of the '60s and '70s.
Certain artists working outside the mainstream have succeeded in introducing changes in the direction of art history-- sometimes small changes, sometimes not so small. Such was the case with Pinot Gallizio. Early on he spoke of painting in terms of an "antiworld" and "antimatter."
He soon came into contact with Asger Jorn, one of the founders of the COBRA- movement, with whom he in 1955 started the "Movimento Internazionale per una Bauhaus Immaginista" (MIBI). A "workshop" and place of argument, common room and center propeller of cultural and political provocations and with this they enter in contact, artists like Enrico Baj, Karel Appel and the urbanist Constant. It´s echoes was one of absolute rejection of functionalism and architectural and social rationalism.
Selected representations
Cesac - Centro Sperimentale per le Arti Contemporanee, Caraglio
Galerie Birch
Galerie Marie-José van de Loo, Munich
Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea, Trento
Villa Croce Museo dArte Contemporanea, Genoa
Galleria Civica d´Arte Moderna e Contemporanea - GAM, Turin
FRAC - Rhône-Alpes, IAC - Institute d`art contemporain, Villeurbanne
MOCA THE GEFFEN CONTEMPORARY, Los Angeles, CA
Galleria Martano
Galerie Drouin in Paris
Bienniale of Venice
Email request to Galerie Birch on current artworks for sale
