Lucio Pozzi

Lucio Pozzi (Milano, 1935)

After living for a few years in Rome, where he studied architecture, in 1962 he moved to the United States as a guest of the Harvard International Seminar. He later moved to New York, where he became an American citizen. Today, he splits his time between Hudson, a town north of New York, and Valeggio sul Mincio, a village located between Mantua and Verona. A secretly subversive artist, he used Conceptual Art as a starting point to question the assumptions of art and seek intensity and inspiration in a structure of constant turnover of differentiated artistic experiences. Versatile and consistent, volcanic and rigorous, Lucio Pozzi is the eternal enfant terrible of Analytical Painting, but also a master of great theoretical value and inexhaustible creative fertility. A great and tireless experimenter with techniques and languages, his early works reflect the major European artistic movements—Cubism, Surrealism, Metaphysics—on which he later built a deep knowledge of the great American artists and movements, from Abstract Expressionism to the New York School, from Conceptual Art to Fluxus. His artistic approach transcends the notion of style in the conventional sense of the term, resulting in an eclectic yet deeply and undeniably coherent search that rejects rigid criteria and labels.
In 1978, the Museum of Modern Art dedicated one of the first solo exhibitions of the Projects Video series to him. He has taught at Cooper Union, the Sculpture Master’s program at Yale University, Princeton University, the Maryland Institute of Art, and the Accademia di Brera. He is part of the faculty at the School of Visual Arts in New York. He has had exhibitions at the museums of the University of Massachusetts, Bielefeld and Karlsruhe, at Studio Carlo Grossetti in Milan, and at the New York galleries of Leo Castelli, John Weber, and Susan Caldwell.