Piero Pizzi Cannella, BON À TIRER

Room 4

The engravings of Piero Pizzi Cannella, an exponent of the Scuola di San Lorenzo, can be considered as a synthesis of his artistic work, first and foremost because of the revival of the subjects typical of his expressive language, which, in the essentiality of the sign and the absence of colour, exaggerate the archetypal characteristics. They are domestic objects, taken out of context and their function and made into an icon, sometimes accompanied by a phrase or a sibylline word. Using etching and carborundum techniques, under the expert guidance of the Albicocco Art Printworks in Udine, the sign acquires greater or lesser precision and consistency, becoming as sharp as an arrowhead or turning into velvet in a chandelier or necklace.

Piero Pizzi Cannella was born in 1955 in Rocca di Papa (RM).