Lucio Del Pezzo (Naples 1933 - Milano 2020), one of the founders of "The 58 Group" in Naples, with a neo-surrealist and neo-Dadaist approach, Also collaborated with the magazine Documento Sud.
His works from the period 1958-1960 featured assemblages of various objects, including fragments of popular prints and images.
In 1960 he moved to Paris, then to Milan, where several monographic exhibitions have been dedicated to him. The first dates back to 1974.
Starting from 1962, Del Pezzo has created his typical repertoire of "paintings" or "sculptures", made up of monochrome geometric panels, on which shelves or hollowed-out concavities are inserted, which support regular geometric objects (skittles, wooden eggs, bowls, mannequins, etc.) sometimes very colorful. The playful aspect is always present in his object-paintings and his assemblages.
For the ironic tone and for the use of everyday objects decontextualized, these works refer to Pop Art; but there is an evident recovery of Giorgio De Chirico, Carlo Carrà, Giorgio Morandi (Motivo, 1967) and of the geometries of metaphysical painting.