Pino Procopio (1954) - PIAZZA PETTIROSSO

Fine Art Giclée "Piazza Pettirosso"\n\n- Multiple edition 1/99\n- Original work on high-quality paper\n- Dry stamp of the Artist's Studio\n- Authenticity hologram\n– Certificate of authenticity provided\n\nPino Procopio, (Guardavalle, June 16, 1954), is an Italian painter, sculptor and illustrator, representative of figurativism. His artistic studies began in Catanzaro, but completed in Rome. In 1982 he earned a degree in architecture at Sapienza University of Rome.\nIn 1980, the art center “La Bitta” hosted his first solo show. After two years spent in Verona, in 1985 he settled in Giulianova, in Abruzzo.\nIn 2001, the “Fondazione Italiana Stauròs Onlus” invited him to exhibit at the Staurós Museum of Sacred Contemporary Art in San Gabriele. The work “Father, into Your hands I commend my spirit” is today a permanent piece of the museum’s collection.\nThe following year, in 2002, he created the painting for the poster of the World Book and Copyright Day, sponsored by UNESCO.\nState Lottery Monopolies commissioned him, in 2003, to create the painting to be placed on the European Lottery ticket, and in 2004 he was commissioned to create the painting that would appear on the Italian Lottery ticket.\nIn 2005 the Ministry of Communications promoted a Roma exhibition that tells the evolution of the Italian postal service over 100 years of history.\nIn 2007 the Pescara Committee of the “Dante Alighieri Society” awarded him the “Dante Alighieri 2007” prize in the Art section.\nThe following year, in 2008, in Rome, the Boncompagni-Ludovisi Museum of the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art hosted “Odysseus, scenes of a journey,” a show dedicated to him.\nIn 2015, in Rome, at the National Gallery of Modern Art (GNAM), he took part in the collective exhibition Corporate Art, concerning the close link between industrial commissions and art.\nIn 2017, at the Teramo Sports Palace, with the sponsorship of UNESCO and MIUR, took place the exhibition “Baadaye, Pinocchio of Africa,” a reinterpretation of the Pinocchio tale, in a modern key, related to the immigrant drama.\nIn 2019, the Municipality of Ascoli Piceno commissioned him to create the Palio della Quintana of the historical August joust.\nAlso in 2019 he exhibited in two solo shows, at the Palazzo del Pegaso of the Tuscany Region in Florence and later at the Museo delle Genti d'Abruzzo in Pescara.\nIn 2020, he exhibited at the Palazzo dei Capitani del Popolo in Ascoli Piceno, a solo show focused on the knightly theme of the Quintana, with sponsorship from the Municipality of Ascoli Piceno, Ascoli Musei and the Marche Region.\nIn 2021, with the sponsorship of the Marche Region and the Municipality of Recanati, he was invited to exhibit a solo show centered on the figure of the poet Giacomo Leopardi, in the aula magna of the municipal building in Recanati.\nIn 2022, he exhibited at the Salt Warehouses (Magazzini del Sale) of the municipality of Siena in a solo show, sponsored by the Tuscany Region.