Concetto Pozzati (Vò di Padova, 1935) is one of the most active protagonists of Italian culture after II World War.Active in Bologna since 1949, where he attends the School of Art, initially he is interested in architecture and graphic design.
In 1955 he moves to Paris to improve his advertising studies with uncle Sepo (Severo Pozzati), a famous poster designer, with whom he establishes in Bologna the Advertising Art School dedicated to his father, the artist Mario Pozzati. In 1962 and 1964 he realizes a few set designs for permanent theaters. From 1967 he teaches at the Academy of Fine Arts in Urbino, which he will later direct; afterwards he teaches at the Academies of Florence, Venice and Bologna. A San Luca scholar, beside a boundless artistic research, underlined by important awards and worldwide exhibitions, he carries on considerable activities as curator for exhibitions, cultural events and publications, with a privileged interest for the problems of art criticism and theory from the artists’ point of view.
After his beginnings within the Informal background, his graphic language responded creatively to the influence of international Pop Art, assuming different connotations over time, but always related to a simplified, educated and ironic representation, tinged with references to memory and populated by metaphysical and surreal appearances, where objects and contexts, often common but at the same time evocative, strongly suggest implied meanings.
The series of displayed artworks allow to build a dialogue between two paintings from Giulio Bargellini original collection and more recent works, donated by the artist in 2015.
As a testimony of three distinct works series, the pieces of the last decade guarantee the vitality and renewal capacity of a creative journey always consistent and oriented towards the creation of a sort of archive of the visible where, behind the silent appearance of things, lies a disenchanted past, intense and poetic, as it appears especially in the paintings dedicated to the memory of his wife Roberta.
