Back to the future: in Chieti, the solo exhibition of Ugo Nespolo

From May 14 to June 18, 2022, the Trifoglio Arte Gallery in Chieti opens the solo exhibition Back to the future by Ugo Nesopolo (Mosso, 1941), one of the leading figures in contemporary art. An eclectic, volcanic, never predictable artist who combines an insatiable artistic and intellectual appetite with the grit of someone who loves to do things his own way. A true all-around intellectual: painter, ceramic sculptor, designer, filmmaker, philosopher, semiologist writer and much more. His beginnings in the Italian art scene date back to the 1960s, to Pop Art, to the future conceptualists and poverists.

Never absolutely linked to a strand, Ugo Nespolo’s production is characterized by a pronounced ironic, transgressive imprint, by a personal sense of fun that has always represented a sort of trademark. In the 1960s Nespolo appropriated a second medium of expression cinema in particular the experimental artist’s cinema To his films have dedicated extensive reviews cultural institutions such as the Georgeus Pompidou Center in Paris, the Philadelphia Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Cinema in Turin. In the 1970s he won the prestigious Bolaffi Prize and made the Museum, a ten-meter-long painting that marked the beginning of a never-ending vein of rereading decomposition reinvention of other people’s art while also experimenting with new techniques.

The 1980s represent the American period; Nespolo spends part of the year in the States: streets, shop windows, lights and advertising signs become the protagonists of his paintings. Experiences in applied art accumulate during these years; Nespolo is faithful to the historical avant-garde’s dictate of bringing art to life. His art thus lends itself to children’s illustrations, film canvases, American streets, museum interiors; he collaborates with RAI for which he makes video theme songs and with advertising agencies; numerous are his collaborations with Campari, Piaggio, and Caffarel. In the decades to follow, he flanks his numerous activities with a commitment to theater; he creates sets and costumes, makes the Palio of the Giostra della Quintana of Foligno, of Ascoli Piceno and the banner of the Palio of Siena. In 2003 the pink jersey and the official poster for the Giro d’Italia and much more. The artist works actively in Turin.

The exhibition, which enjoys the patronage of the Presidency of the Abruzzo Region and the Municipality of Chieti, will be accompanied by a catalog with a critical text by Gabriele Simongini and a text by Monsignor Bruno Forte, who collaborated with the artist, on the occasion of the jubilee year, with his introduction in the edition ofApocalypse, a high-value limited edition volume. Simongini writes: “With his vocation for irony, with his artisanal love for the well-made ’object’ that stems from a work ethic typical of his native area, Nespolo exalts a direct immediacy of communicative impact that dialogues in full critical awareness with the mass media and advertising iconosphere in which we are immersed.”

Back to the future opens daily Monday through Saturday from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 4:30 to 8 p.m., Sundays by appointment. For info www.trifoglioarte.it.

Back to the future: in Chieti, the solo exhibition of Ugo Nespolo

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