Gian Paolo Dulbecco (12 September 1941) is an Italian painter.

Biography

Born in La Spezia (Italy), he began as a self-taught painter at the end of the 50s, devoting himself also to the engraving techniques, especially to the

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In 1966 he graduated from the

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and settled in

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in the last years of the 60s. In 1971 he returned to

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, taking part in many important art exhibitions.
In 1982-83 he created a set of paintings on the

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Stations of the Cross theme, now placed in the '' S. Gemma Church'' in Monza; at the same time, he presented some paintings in various sacred-art exhibitions.
In 1984 he won a prize from the Cartier's Collection in Milan. In 1992 he was among the winners in a national competition organized by the Italian magazine ''Arte''.
In 1992-93 he revisited the

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s theme, that he had already developed in the previous years: a special set of these 22 paintings, devoted to the subject and history of tobacco, was included by the French art critic Pierre Restany in the show ''Art et Tabac'', which is presented in various European countries.
A period of various exhibitions in Europe and Japan followed. In July 2002 the Italian Ministry for Heritage and Cultural Affairs supported a significant anthological exhibition in Ravello, with his paintings from 1990 to 2002.

Style

He developed his own language modulated on arrangements of colour and light in a search for formal value, often expressed on canvasses of small dimensions. Combined with the pursuit of creative refinement, his painting is characterized by a marked state of disorientation as a metaphor for the universal interrogative. The result is a universe of magic realism, organized without purpose, in a suspended atmosphere and frozen in time.

Collections

* '' Panorama Museum'',

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, Germany * ''Fantastic Art Collection'', Gruyères Castle, Switzerland * '' FAI Heritage'' (''National Trust of Italy''),

* ''Lombardy regional art collection'',

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* Heritage of the Municipality of Monza * '' Paul VI Art collection'',

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, (Brescia) * '' Gonzaga Museum'',

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* ''Tarots Museum'', Riola di Vergato, (Bologna) * ''Mario Novaro Foundation'',

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* ''Museo dei Trasporti'', La Spezia * ''

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City Council art collection'' * '' Cervia City Council art collection * '' Vatican Contemporary Art Collection'',

* '' Ravello City Council art collection * ''Province of Palermo paintings collection'', Palermo

References

Bibliography

* ''Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon'', de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin * ''Catalogo d’Arte Moderna'', Mondadori, Milan * ''Art & Tabac'', catalogo della mostra al Tabakmuseum, Vienna, 1995 * P. Morselli, F. Gozzi, U. Montanari, ''Carnevalesca, il travestimento, la festa, catalogo della mostra a Cento'', Ed. Siaca, Cento, 2003 * ''Gian Paolo Dulbecco, La via Crucis per la Chiesa di S.Gemma Galgani in Monza (1983-85)'', Monza, 2006 * C. Caserta, ''Pulcinella, viaggio nell’ultimo Novecento - Dulbecco, Lubelli, Luzzati'', ''Mautone'', ESI, Napoli, 2006, *''Dopo de Chirico. La pittura metafisica italiana contemporanea''. Catalog - Panorama Museum, Bad Frankenhausen, 2012, * C.Caserta, ''Gian Paolo Dulbecco, antologia della pittura'', Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, Napoli, 2016, * A.Sartori: ''Catalogo Sartori d'arte moderna e contemporanea - 2018'', Archivio Sartori Editore, Mantova, 2018 * N.Del Buono: ''The best of the year, 90 Italian highlights'', AD (Italy), Nov. 2019

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