Lucio Pozzi was born in Milan, Italy in 1935. After living for some years in Rome where he studied architecture, he went to the United States in 1962 as a guest of the Harvard International Summer Seminar. Afterwards, he moved definitively to New York and took American citizenship. Currently he divides his time between his studio in Hudson and the one in Valeggio sul Mincio (Verona).

Since 1961, Pozzi has shown his works in one-man and group exhibitions at the most important Italian and international galleries and museums. In 1977 he participated in the Kassel Documenta* VI and in the 39th Venice Biennial* of Art in 1980.

His works are in the collections of the most prestigious museums of contemporary art: the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum in New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, the Kunstmuseum in Basel, Germany, and the Luigi Pecci Center for Contemporary Art in Prato, Italy.

Pozzi has turned the canons of conceptual* and analytical art upside-down, conceiving provocative exhibitions in which he displays pictorial works, landscapes and photos as if they were conceptual operations.

Lucio Pozzi's artistic work is eclectic but extremely consistent; he paints figurative and abstract pictures, takes photos and does installations*, and produces videos and sculpture. For Pozzi, the purpose of art is to design a creative misinterpretation, an open, yet disturbing dialogue with the spectator.

Source:
Berengo Fine Arts, www.berengo.com

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