Concetto Pozzati two months after his passing: remembrance of MAGI '900

Veneto artist Concetto Pozzati (Vò di Padova, 1935 - Bologna, 2017) left us last August 1. One of the most active masters of post-World War II Italian culture, he attended the Art Institute in Bologna from 1949, then, in 1955, stayed in Paris where he studied advertising with his uncle Severo Pozzati, known as Sepo, with whom he later founded the School of Advertising Art in Bologna. He taught at several Academies of Fine Arts, from Urbino to Florence, from Venice to Bologna, and was also an Academician of San Luca, as well as a cultural alderman for the City of Bologna. Influenced by pop art, actively engaged, capable of ironic and surreal art, he was able to interpret many of the artistic currents of the 20th century with originality.

The MAGI ’900 Museum in Pieve di Cento, which owns an important nucleus of Concetto Pozzati’s works, wanted to pay tribute to the artist in this way: “Two months after his death, we want to remember the personality and art of Concetto Pozzati, through the intense and colorful images of the works exhibited in the section dedicated to him in the permanent collection of the MAGI’900 Museum. This is a nucleus of significant paintings from his career, allowing us to build a dialogue between two works from the 1970s and 1980s belonging to Giulio Bargellini’s historical collection with more recent works, generously donated by the artist himself in 2015 precisely so that we could build a sort of short story of his story. Witnesses of three distinct moments, these works in fact attest to the vitality and capacity for renewal of a creative path that is always consistent, oriented toward the construction of a fascinating archive of the visible, in which, behind the mute appearance of things lies a disenchanted, intense and intelligent experience.”

Pictured: Concetto Pozzati, From the Restoration cycle, Troubadour by and for De Chirico, 1973

Concetto Pozzati two months after his passing: remembrance of MAGI '900

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