Ugo Nespolo, I fiori a quinte, 21st Century, Silkscreen

Ugo Nespolo.
Flowers A Quinte
50x50 cm.
Polymaterial color silkscreen print with collage hand interventions.
Signed and numbered by hand by the artist on the front.
No. of 200 copies.
Present certificate of authenticity and provenance (publisher's signature and embossed stamp with photographic reference and numbering) - EXCEPTIONAL WORK IN PERFECT CONDITION, UNFRAMED, UNCOATED - Images of framed/numbered specimen are for illustrative purposes only.
BIOGRAPHY
Ugo Nespolo, born in Mosso (Biella), graduated from the Albertina Academy of Fine Arts in Turin and holds a degree in Modern Literature. His beginnings in the Italian art scene date back to the 1960s, approaching Pop Art, Conceptual Art and Arte Povera (Alberto Burri, Alighiero Boetti, Giulio Paolini, Piero Gilardi, etc.). Never absolutely linked to a strand, his production is immediately characterized by a pronounced ironic, transgressive imprint, by a personal sense of fun that will always represent a sort of trademark.
The 1970s represent a fundamental passage for Nespolo: he wins the Bolaffi prize (1974), he realizes the Museum (1975-'76), a ten-meter-long painting that marks the beginning of a never exhausted vein of rereading-decomposition-invention of other people's art. Also in those years he began experimenting with the technique of inlay, a unique and distinctive language that would characterize Ugo Nespolo's artistic production in the following decades.
The 1980s represent the heart of the "American period": Ugo Nespolo spends part of the year in the States and the streets, shop windows, and hamburger vendors of New York become the protagonists of his paintings.
The author of numerous exhibitions around the world, Nespolo has also been involved in numerous artistic collaborations, including those with Caffarel, Rai, Giro d'Italia, De Agostini, Swatch and Campari.
Ugo Nespolo currently lives and works in Turin.