Andrea Vizzini (1949) - Street art

Original oil on canvas by Andrea Vizzini (1949)
Excellent condition

Andrea Vizzini was born on February 5, 1949, in Grotte, Italy; he is a painter and sculptor. He was a scholar of techniques ranging from photography to computer art, and he was among the initiators of a movement which, in the 1960s and 1970s—before the Trans-avant-garde—leaned toward a return to painting, alongside the conceptual currents.

His beginnings are characterized by conceptual painting, the use of figuration in strange and diverse contexts, contributing to the historical core of new figures of the 1970s to the affirmation of the movement. In his canvases, he reconstructs the vision of myth, the history of art, and literature with a visionary perspective. The history of art and its iconography has been the central element of his quest, an “Ante Litteram” citizenry preacher, and he did not subscribe to the movement promulgated by Maurizio Calvesi and Enrico Crispolti in pursuing a path beyond definitive regimes and regroupings.