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BIOGRAPHICAL SIGNS
Vincenzo Ottone Maria Petrillo ( 1932 – 2001 ) graduated at the Art School, in Via Conte Verde in Roma, already student of Leoncillo kept contacts with the academy of Villa Massimo in Roma taking part to the first editions of the " Premio Spoleto;. He followed Afro and the Roman school.
He had the opportunity of meeting Magritte in occasion of his visit to Rome in 1965 , as well as Lismonde and Delvaux.
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 Atelier of Via Margutta |
He lived and worked in Roma. Considered the last artist of Via Margutta, he lived there for more than twenty years, founding the ideal center of the " space universality;. He took part in a lot of important art exhibitions, getting meaningful prizes in painting and sculpture sections .
Meaningful among the other ones are the Roman exhibitions at Palazzo Antici Mattei, Palazzo di Firenze and Museum of S. Egidio and his taking part in the VIIth and IXth edition of the quadrennial art exhibition in Rome.
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His artworks are available in public collects, as the Galleria Comunale di Arte Moderna in Roma, the Galleria d' Arte Moderna Palazzo Pitti in Firenze and the Galleria Comunale di Arte Moderna at Spoleto, either in private collects in Italy or abroad.
His activity broadly spaced from sculpture to painting, to jeweller's, to planning and to the realization of private residences internal, often intervening in the environments in its complex.
From the end of eighties until his death, he taught at the Ornamental Art school of S. James in Rome.
After almost withdrawing from public exhibitions and from the private galleries, moving across the historical, artistic tides, also solicited from family and personal vicissitudes , he spent a long run in searching and experimenting finally giving life to his concept of "space universality".
He incessantly worked until the death, leaving a various and vast artistic production.
Alberto Franco has recently written about him .
Vito Apuleo, Guido de Virgilio, Giacomo Etna, Giorgio Falcidia, Ettore Francia, Virgilio Guzzi, Alessandro Masi, Valentino Martinelli, Roberto Melli, Giuseppe Pensabene, Francesco Perfetti, P.E. Puccioni, Lorenza Trucchi, Marcello Venturoli have written in the past years instead. |