UGO NESPOLO - Biography
Ugo Nespolo was born in Mosso (Biella) in 1941. Painter, sculptor, important exponent of Italian contemporary art.
Graduated from the Albertina Academy of Fine Arts, he later graduated in Modern Literature showing great interest in Semiology. He made his debut in the Italian art scene in the Sixties with contaminations of Pop art and with a close militancy with conceptualists and poverists. His production is soon characterized by a strong transgressive, ironic accent and that apparent sense of fun, qualities that will lend themselves to the cinematographic canvas by exploring this medium of expression soon in the seventies. The eighties represent for Ugo Nespolo the most appreciated maturation of the American period, his paintings represent objects and clichés of American cities. He collaborates with Rai for which he realizes videosigle, collaborates in advertising creations, faithful to the dictate of the historical avant-gardes to "bring art into life", the artist must occupy spaces of common life, leave the assigned, canonical spaces. Novanta combines his numerous activities with his commitment to the theater, creating sets and costumes for the elixir d'amor Doninzettii at the Tatro dell'Opera in Rome, at the Opera in Paris, Lausanne, Liegoi and Metz.
Nespolo is also counted among the "masters of the Palio", for having painted the two sendalli for the Asti Palio of that edition in 2000.
In 2005 in Turin, he created thematic works for Gtt in the Turin underground stations and later decorated the exterior of the shopping center in Via Livorno with his unmistakable imprint. In 2007, he painted the banner of the Palio di Siena on August 16.