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Piero Dorazio (Italian, 1927-2005)
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Biography |
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1927 |
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Born: Rome, Italy |
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1947 - 1948 |
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Co-founded Forma 1, the first group of Italian abstract artists
Awarded a scholarship by the French government to the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, France |
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1950 |
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Co-founded the influential cooperative gallery “Age d’Or” in Rome and Florence, Italy |
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1945 - 1951 |
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Studied architecture at the Università degli Studi, Rome, Italy |
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1953 |
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Traveled to the United States where he met Rothko, Motherwell, Kline and Clement Greenberg |
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1955 |
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Published the first book on international Modern art to appear in Italy: "La Fantasia Dell-Arte Nella Vita Moderna". |
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1963 |
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Co-founded the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania, PA |
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1968 |
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Invited for a residency at the Deutsche Akademische Austauschdienst in Berlin, Germany |
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1960 - 1969 |
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Taught at the Graduate School of Fine Arts, University of Pennsylvania, PA |
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1970 |
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Moved to Prima Porta, near Rome, Italy |
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1971 |
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Visited Greece, Africa and the Middle East. These trips were particularly influential on his work. |
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1985 - 1986 |
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Awarded a prize of the Accademia Nazionale di San Luca, Roma, Italy |
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2005 |
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Died: Perugia, Italy |
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Exhibitions |
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2004 |
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"Piero Dorazio: Retrospective", Semir Zeki, London, UK; Casa Rusca, Locarno, Switzerland (solo) |
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2003 |
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"Piero Dorazio", Institut Valencià d'Art Modern (IVAM), Valencia, Spain (solo) |
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2002 |
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"Piero Dorazio : Watercolors and Drawings 1957 - 1962", Achim Moeller Fine Art, New York, NY (solo) |
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2000 |
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"Piero Dorazio : Paintings of the Fifties", Achim Moeller Fine Art, New York, NY (solo) |
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1999 |
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"Piero Dorazio, Arbeiten auf Papier den jähre 1959 bis 1998", Stolz, Berlin, Germany (solo) |
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1998 |
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"Grazie Piero, Opere degli Anni '60 di Piero Dorazio", Galleria Lorenzelli, Milan, Italy (solo) |
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1997 |
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"Dorazio, Rosso-Verde-Bleu & O.", Galleria Di Summa, Rome, Italy (solo) |
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1996 |
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Galerie Biedermann, Munich, Germany
Calcografia Nazionale, Rome, Italy (solo) |
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1994 |
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"Anthological Exhibition 1946-1993", Municipal Gallery, Athens, Greece (solo) |
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1993 |
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"L'Oeuvre au Pluriel", Artcurial, Paris, France (solo) |
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1992 |
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"La Fantasia dell'Arte nella vita moderna", Galleria Pananti, Florence, Italy (solo) |
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1991 |
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"Opere su carta", Galleria Il Segno, Rome, Italy (solo) |
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1990 |
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"100 Lavori su carta 1946-1989", Galleria Kodama, Osaka, Japan (solo)
"Mostra antologica 1946-1989", Musée de Grenoble, Grenoble, France (solo)
"Opere su carta", Galleria Il Ponte, Rome, Italy (solo) |
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1989 |
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"Bilder 1982-1989", Galerie Karin Fesel, Dusseldorf, Germany (solo) |
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1988 |
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Galerie Biedermann Munich, Germany |
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1987 |
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"Piero Dorazio: Paintings, Watercolors and Graphics", Aras Gallery, Ravensburg, Germany (solo)
Galleria Lorenzelli, Milan, Italy (solo) |
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1985 - 1986 |
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"Piero Dorazio: Drawings and Watercolors", Achim Moeller Fine Art, New York, NY
Gallery Face, Tokyo, Japan (solo) |
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1985 |
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Takanawa Art Gallery Seibu, Tokyo, Japan (solo) |
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1984 |
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Arco Foire Internationale d'Art Contemporain de Madrid, Madrid, Spain (solo)
Galleria Mara Coccia, Rome, Italy (solo) |
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1980 - 1983 |
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"Piero Dorazio: Retrospective", Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY (traveled to Dartmouth College, Hanover; NH; Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL; The Chrystler Museum, Norfolk, VA; Dayton, OH and Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL (solo)
Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy (solo) |
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1982 |
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Galleria Il Ponte, Rome, Italy (solo)
Galleria Abba, Arte Contemporanea, Brescia, Italy (solo) |
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1981 |
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Galerie Biedermann Munich, Germany
André Emmenich Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto, Canada (solo)
"Carte e Colori", Galleria Lorenzelli, Milan, Italy (solo) |
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1980 |
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F.I.A.C., Petit Palais, Paris, France (solo)
The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA (solo) |
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1979 |
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"Piero Dorazio: Retrospective, 1947-1978", Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France (solo)
André Emmenich Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Albnight-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY (solo)
Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY (solo) |
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1978 |
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Galleria Editalia, Rome, Italy (solo)
Galerie Kornfeld, Zurich, Switzerland (solo) |
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1977 |
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Galerie Biedermann, Munich, Germany
André Emmenich Gallery, New York, NY (solo) |
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1976 |
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André Emeriti Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Parametro Galleria d'Arte, Rome, Italy (solo) |
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1975 |
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Galleria dell'Ariete, maggio, Milan, Italy (solo)
Marlborough Galleria d'Arte, Rome, Italy (solo) |
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1974 |
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Galerie Biedermann, Munich, Germany
Studio Marconi, Milan, Italy (solo)
Marlborough Galleria d'Arte, Rome, Italy (solo) |
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1973 |
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Marlborough Fine Art Gallery, London, UK (solo)
Galleria San Gallo, Florence, Italy (solo)
Galleria Godel, Rome, Italy (solo)
Marlborough-Godard Gallery, Montreal, Canada (solo)
Marlborough-Godard Gallery, Toronto, Canada (solo) |
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1972 |
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Galleria il Salotto, Genoa, Italy (solo)
Marlborough Galleria d'Arte, Rome, Italy (solo)
Galleria dell 'Ariete, Milan (solo)
Galleria La Nuova Città, Brescia, Italy (solo) |
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1971 |
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Galleria d'Arte Peccolo, Leghorn, Italy (solo)
Grafica Romero, Rome, Italy (solo)
Galleria Quattro Venti, Palermo, Italy (solo)
Galleria Studio La Città, Verona, Italy (solo) |
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1970 |
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Grafica Romero, Rome, Italy (solo)
Galleria Martano/Due, Turin, Italy (solo)
Galleria li Segnapassi, Pesaro, Italy (solo)
Muzej Savremene Umetnosti, Belgrade, Serbia (solo)
Galleria il Centro, Napoli, Italy (solo) |
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1969 |
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Manlborough-Gerson Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, Germany (solo)
New Gallery, Bennington College, VT (solo)
Galleria Arte Studio, Macerata, Italy (solo)
Palais des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles, Bruxelles, Belgium (solo)
Galleria dell'Ariete, Milan, Italy (solo)
Galleria Boni-Schubert, Lugano, Switzerland (solo)
Galleria La Bussola, Bari, Italy (solo) |
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1966 |
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Galleria Arte Oggi, Pescara, Italy (solo)
Galleria del Deposito, Genoa, Italy (solo)
Galleria dell'Ariete, Milan, Italy (solo)
Svensk-Franska Konstgalleriet, Stockholm, Sweden (solo)
Galleria Zen, Brescia, Italy (solo)
" VI Biennale d'Arte Repubblica di San Marino", Palazzo dei Congressi, San Marino, Italy (solo)
Makler Gallery, Philadelphia, PA (solo) |
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1965 |
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"The Responsive Eye", Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (solo)
Galleria dell'Ariete, Milan, Italy (solo)
Galleria il Punto, Turin, Italy (solo) |
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1964 |
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Galleria Il Segno, Rome, Italy (solo)
Marlborough Galleria d'Arte, Rome, Italy (solo) |
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1963 |
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Museo de Arte Moderno, San Paolo, Brazil (solo)
Galeria Relevo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (solo) |
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1962 |
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Galerie Muller, Stuttgart, Germany (solo)
Galleria Quadrante, Florence, Italy (solo)
Galleria dell'Ariete, Milan, Italy (solo)
Studio F, Ulm, Germany (solo)
Galerie Suzanne Bollag, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
Galerie Rottloff, Karlsruhe, Germany (solo) |
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1961 |
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Howard Wise Gallery, Cleveland, OH (solo)
Städtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, Germany (solo)
Galerie Ad Libitum, Antwerp, Belgium (solo)
Galerie Nacht St. Stephan, Vienna, Austria (solo) |
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1960 |
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XXX Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy (solo) |
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1959 |
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Galerie Springer, Berlin, Germany (solo)
Galerie Hella Nebelung, Düsseldorf, Germany (solo)
Galerie Seide, Hannover, Germany (solo) |
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1957 |
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La Tartaruga, Rome, Italy (solo) |
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1956 |
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Galleria La Strozzina, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy (solo) |
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1955 |
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Galleria Apollinaire, Milan, Italy (solo)
Galleria d'Arte del Cavallino, Venice, Italy (solo) |
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1954 |
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Rose Fried Gallery, New York, NY (solo) |
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1953 |
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Wittenborn One-Wall Gallery, New York, NY (solo) |
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Selected Public Collections: |
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Archivio Centrale dello Stato, Rome, Italy
Civico Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
Collezione Civica d'Arte Moderna, Florence, Italy
Collection Peggy Guggenheim, Venice, Italy
Galleria Comunale d'Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy
Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy
Museo Civico, Turin, Italy
Collezione d'Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Museum of Contemporary Arts, Chicago, IL
Museum of Modem Art, New York, NY
Staatliche Museum Kassel, Kassel, Germany
Kunstmuseum, Düsseldorf, Germany
Musée de Grenoble, Grenoble, France
Tate Gallery, London, UK
Stedeliik Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Kunsthaus, Zurich, Switzerland |
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Literature |
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2004 |
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Papenberg-Weber, Annette. Piero Dorazio (Exh. Cat.). Locarno, Switzerland: Pinacoteca comunale Casa Rusca, 2004 |
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2003 |
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Papenberg-Weber, Annette. Piero Dorazio: La Formazione Artistica. Milan, Italy: Skira, 2003
Barañano, Kosme de. Dorazio : Institut Valencià d'Art Modern (Exh. Cat.). Valencia, Spain: Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, 2003 |
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2001 |
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Vernizzi, Nathalie. Dorazio Jazz (Exh. Cat.). Bolzano, Italy: MUSEION Museo d’Arte Moderna, 2001 |
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2000 |
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Cortenova G. , Ballesi P., Bossaglia R., Crispoliti E. and W. Tulli. Dorazio, AAVV (Exh. Cat.). Milan, Italy: Electa, 2000 |
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1998 |
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Vernizzi, Nathalie. Piero Dorazio. Gli anni Sessanta (Exh. Cat.). Milan, Italy, 1998 |
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1995 |
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Kunn, Annette. Piero Dorazio. Bonn, Germany: Edition der Verlage Weltkunst und Bruckmann, 1995 |
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1979 |
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Fry, Edward F. Piero Dorazio, a retrospective (Exh. Cat.). Buffalo, NY: Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 1979 |
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1955 |
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Dorazio, Pedro. La Fantasia dell’Arte nella Vita Moderna. Roma, Italy: Polveroni e Quinti, 1955 |
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