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ANTONIO PEDRETTI
ROOTS OF IDENTITY

July 9, 2006 to September 10, 2006
Opening hours: Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays, holidays: 10-12 am / 3.00 - 7.00 pm
Tickets: Euro 2.60   cut- rate tickets:  Euro 1.60

Inauguration: Saturday, July 8, 2006 at 6.00 pm

Press release

Antonio Pedretti was born in 1950 in Gavirate.
His first personal exhibit was in Varese when he was 16 and hadn’t even finished the art school he was attending.
Pedretti has a strong bond with his native land: the nature, the people, and all those things that become smell, taste, traditions, words and meaningful silence. He becomes an interpreter that turns reality into feelings and memories.

He moves from figurative art to the 70’s synthesis, evolves into the art of the 80’s made of collage, decollage, use of photographs and written words, and then to the use of plexiglass that becomes a container of landscapes and expressive techniques.
During the 90’s he goes back to oil painting, turning quick strokes of his brushes into doors to new emotional territories.

Many critics and artists – such as Renato Guttuso, Enzo Fabiani, Enrico Crispolti, Marco Goldin, Vittorio Sgarbi, Achille Bonito Oliva and many more – have written about his art.  He’s displayed his work both in Italy and abroad; the most recent exhibitions were organized in Buenos Aires, Brasilia, Rio de Janeiro, Lima and Santiago, and were sponsored by the Italian Embassies and the ministry of foreign affairs. A large anthological exhibit organized by Vittorio Sgarbi and Giovanni Faccenda was held in 2005 in Rome (Palazzo Venezia), sponsored by Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali and by the Comune of Rome.
The exhibit in Maccagno is a selection of works by Claudio Rizzi; here you’ll be able to see both works on canvas and paper, all of large size, that create a path that winds through architecture, memories and roots.
A walk around – and back to – his identity.

The catalog is published by Nicolini Editore and includes a comprehensive selection of pictures and biographical information.
Regione Lombardia, Provincia di Varese sponsor this exhibit, which is part of a long-term project by Museo di Maccagno whose purpose is to explore the works by local artists who have given a significant contribution to modern art’s evolution.