Ettore Spalletti (26 January 1940 – 11 October 2019) was an Italian artist. He exhibited at

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in 1982 and 1992 and represented Italy at the Venice Biennale in 1997. Spalletti was mostly known for his light blue monochrome paintings that he created on different surfaces and for his creative use of light. Spalletti lived and worked for all his life in his birthplace Cappelle sul Tavo in

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Selected exhibitions

* 1982: Documenta VII * 1991: Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris * 1992: Documenta IX * 1993:

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(with Haim Steinbach) *1997: 47th Venice Biennale * 2009: Museum Kurhaus Kleve * 2014: Jointed exhibition at

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, Rome; Museo d'arte contemporanea Donnaregina, Naples; and Galleria civica d'arte moderna e contemporanea, Bergamo.

References

Italian contemporary artists 1940 births 2019 deaths People from the Province of Pescara 20th-century Italian male artists 21st-century Italian male artists {{Italy-artist-stub