Contemporary art in Florence, Italy


Enzo Pazzagli
Enzo Pazzagli was born in Pietraviva, a small village in the tuscan countryside between Arezzo and Siena. It was there that he passed his childhood and adolescence, learning the art of wrought iron from his blacksmith father, gaining familiarity right from boyhood with this material that still fascinates him even today for its "ostentatious reluctance."

Giovanni Michelucci
Considered one of the major italian architects of the XXth century, he is the creator of the Santa Maria Novella station, a masterpiece of the italian rationalism.

Marcello Guasti
Certainly one of the most important italian contemporary artists, he ranges between painting and sculpting with different forms, techniques and materials. Esteemed by both the national and international critics, he realized several public works in Italy and abroad.

Leonardo Mattioli
Well known florentine graphic designer, whose activity developed in the mid fifties. His name is particularly related to a wonderful edition of Pinocchio (Vallecchi 1955) where the artist fully expresses his innovative power in the use of colors, anticipating by several years the italian way of expression.

Vinicio Berti
Has been one of the major abstract italian painters. In 1947, after an initial period of studies on cubism and futurism, he kept on developing and expanding the expressive possibilities of abstractism.

Marco Fallani
Attended Istituto d'Arte di Porta Romana and Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence. Awarded painting prize from the city of Lucca and prepared moulds and plaster casts of the Guiglielmo pulpit for the Museo dell&rsquoOpera del Duomo of Pisa.

Alexandra Khuen Belasi
Her Productions are handmade originals. She uses brass nickel plated, glass, ceramic for the execution of her works. She is original, creative and unique in her style.

Gianluca Ciccone
Was born in Foggia in 1961 where he started painting very early. He moved to Florence in 1979 where he studied Architecture at the State University. Since 1991 he is Professor of Painting at the State Accademy of Art.

Helmut Pizzinini
Helmut Pizzinini works with antique and poor materials. He uses wood, iron and stone. He moulds ton and adds colour.

Armida Bietolini
She is often ribelled against the bad taste and monotony of abstract, super-minimalist, modern works. She likes to share her ideas with people who love and apreciate art instead of doing too much discussions about its support and promotion.

Enrico Maria Cartei
Enrico Maria Cartei was born in Florence on september 3rd 1968. Since he was a child he developed a natural flair on drawing, a natural talent to translate his background experience to grafic art.