Biographie

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

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

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

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

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 protruding (real). Anything can be used to work with: branch, glass, grapes, brushes, nails, piano hammers, leafs, playing cards, tubes of colours, records ...

"La peinture de Pelliccioli est une invention de la sensibilité qui confine avec le désir inassouvi d'une identification du monde et de la réalité. Ceci est le voeu et le message qui nous viennent d'un jeune artiste en constant progrès et cela doit nous aider à vivre et à continuer à lutter pour nous rapporcher des rêves d'une grande fraternité, cosmique et universelle."

Franco Passoni