iovanni Pelliccioli was born in 1947.at San Pellegrino Terme - Italy. When he was eight he discovered art and started drawing.

At 18 he began art studies at Carrara Academy of Bergame. At time he painted realist and impressionist style paintings, but when he discovered surrealism he knew at instant this form would permit him to give the best of his artistic expression. Since then he works as professional artist.

Throughout the 40 years of profession he has painted 4.200 paintings which has been presented to the public in 100 exhibitions as well in Italy as abroad (among them: Rome, Venice, Geneva, Paris, Frankfurt, Rotterdam, Oslo, Cannes…).

At 1993, he left Italy and established him in France at Antibes (French Riviera).

Curious and willing to do always something new, Pelliccioli created seven years ago an absolutely new form in the world of the artistic painting - a "triangle" - it is a picture cut in a diagonal with a three-dimensional definition. Whether oil on canvas or oil on wood a "trompe l'oeil" sensation is accomplished. & A represented subject is half painted (unreal) and half coming out (real). Anything can be used to work with: branch, glass, grapes, brushes, nails, piano hammers, leafs, playing cards, tubes of colours, records ...

"...Pelliccioli's works come from a creative sensitivity that goes beyond the unfulfilled desire to reproduce the world and reality. This is the desire and the message of this young up and coming artist and this must surely help us live and continue our struggle towards the dream of cosmic and universal brotherhood."

Artist's autobiography, a book for collection sold only by the artist himself.
(cm 22x30, 77 pages, 24 illustrations, covered in blue linen with golden letters).
There are four editions : English, German, Italian and French version.

******************************************* "It is impossible, perhaps even blasphemous to comment an art work. Only the eyes and a certain mental attitude can allow us to be placed in front of a canvas. The word is not only arbitrary, but insulting and ridiculous, and it always risks to overlap what the canvas can express. As always, my engagement is to create poetry with a touch of irony, cause a positive emotion and cheer the spirits. The fantastic, the dream, the sense of not logical, simply a free interpretation of our being." ------------------ "Speaking about art, particularly of my art is rather complicated and simple at the same time. When the work is over, it is observed and every one of us is affected by emotion. This is a part of me, the artist who "talks" with the viewer. All my work is done to exalt the nature. I love classical music, archeology, mythology, the deep seas as the infinite universe. I try to tell a story with a brush, try to travel remaining in my studio, I inspire me with something real, then I start to play, to create fantastic, irony, poetry, fable. It is an endless journey, a necessity to communicate, to consult the public. Surrealism has been called "The photography made with the brush of thought. " Only the mental game can tell the future and imagine the impossible. I just have not enough time to do everything in my mind is already done. "

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