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Pierri, Duilio
(b Buenos Aires, 1954). Argentine painter. He studied at the Escuelas Nacionales de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aries. He was awarded the Beca de Francia scholarship in 1975 and lived in New York from 1980 until 1984, when he returned to Buenos Aires. After 1984 he was awarded numerous prizes for painting and held many one-man exhibitions in the USA, Mexico, Spain, Italy, Finland and Peru. By 1993 Pierri had painted some 20 murals, distinguished by his saturation of the planes and contrived superimpositions. In his use of colour he was influenced by Expressionism, although he made use of Neo-expressionist, Surrealist and Pop art ingredients. His works present him as a narrator, a witness to interiors and exteriors where stories unfold; these sometimes appear banal but can be incisive and at times biting. He also employed the absurd, contriving to create reality through the play of the unreal. His interiors, for example, showed figures enclosed by buildings, or insect–creatures on the edges of mystery, or a memory of his surroundings that was amplified and developed in relation to the aggressive events of daily life. He was a gifted colourist with a spontaneous line and an acid humour that was neither moralistic nor condemnatory.
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