Aldo Pancheri (born 20 May 1940) is an Italian
painter
Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and ai ...
and
printmaker
Printmaking is the process of creating work of art, artworks by printing, normally on paper, but also on fabric, wood, metal, and other surfaces. "Traditional printmaking" normally covers only the process of creating prints using a hand proce ...
. He was born in
Trento.
He is known for his engraving and for experimental work with timbric matrices.
Life
Pancheri was born in
Trento, Italy on May 20, 1940. At age thirteen, he had an exhibition in Trento, at the “Sala degli Specchi,” introduced by
Alfonso Gatto
Alfonso Gatto (17 July 1909 – 8 March 1976) was an Italian writer. Along with Giuseppe Ungaretti and Eugenio Montale, he is one of the foremost Italian poets of the 20th century and a major exponent of hermetic poetry.
Biography
Gatto stud ...
. After graduating from Trento's Art High School, he enrolled at the
Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna
The Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna ("academy of fine arts of Bologna") is a public tertiary academy of fine art in Bologna, in Emilia-Romagna in northern Italy. It has a campus in Cesena.
Giorgio Morandi taught engraving at the Accademia f ...
in Virglio Guidi's school, receiving his diploma in 1962. During this time, Pancheri participated in the San Fedele art awards in
Milan. Pancheri won the Diomira prize and came in second for the San Fedele prize twice.
At the art gallery L'Argentario in Trento, Pancheir shared a studio with painter Aldo Schmid for 18 months. Pancheri bought a star-shaped printing press that allowed him to start his
engraving activity. He created series of
lithographic printings that would be exhibited a few years later at the
Plazzo Sormani in Milan. Pancheri had his first exhibition in a public space, at the Museo Civico di Palazzo Sturm in
Bassano del Grappa.
In the 1970s, Pancheri moved to Milan permanently. In 1983, he had an exhibition at the gallery “Il traghetto” in
Venice
Venice ( ; it, Venezia ; vec, Venesia or ) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto Regions of Italy, region. It is built on a group of 118 small islands that are separated by canals and linked by over 400 ...
, and Giani de Marco became ‘his’ gallery director.
Since the 1980s, Pancheri has cooperated with the printer Giorgio Upiglio in experimental techniques using self-invented plastic components. Since 1983, he has taken part in “Avventure visive,” (an art group started together with Giorgio Azzaroni, Giancarlo Marchese e Franco Ricci) and, more consistently, at “Morfo-cromo-machia,” .
As one of Italy's InSEA members and under the purview of the cultural activities promoted by
UNESCO, Pancheri took a sabbatical in
Coventry in July, 1970, at the Künstlerhaus of
Salzburg in November, 1986, and in
Glurns
Glurns (; it, Glorenza ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in South Tyrol in northern Italy, located about northwest of Bolzano.
Geography
As of 30 November 2010, it had a population of 876 and an area of .All demographics and other statistics: I ...
, Italy in 1987 as a part of the cultural activities promoted by Arge-Alp.
Pancheri is currently developing a new expressive form: the 'art of timbre. He uses timbric matrices that are available for other artists.
References
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1940 births
Living people
21st-century Italian painters
People from Trento