Paolo Scheggi - vendere e comprare opere
Settignano, Florence 1940 - Rome, 1971
Paolo Scheggi was a key protagonist of the 1960s Italian neo-avant-garde. His art is characterised by spatial and monochrome pictorial design, as demonstrated by his work "Intersuperfici", which consists of three overlapping canvases traversed by different circular or elliptical openings. Scheggi is one of the pioneers of "Pittura Oggetto", or object painting. Scheggi was the youngest participant in the 1966 Venice Biennale and piqued the interest of Lucio Fontana early on in his career. Fontana paid great tribute to Scheggi, and the two were on friendly terms.
Paolo Scheggi was born on 19 August 1940 in Settignano, north-east of Florence. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence and then attended a course in visual design in London. In 1961 he founded the cultural and art-critical magazine "Il Malinteso" in Florence with friends, and in the autumn of the same year held his first solo exhibition in Milan, where he met fellow artists such as Agostino Bonalumi, Enrico Castellani, Dadamaino, and Piero Manzoni. He took part in numerous important exhibitions over the course of the following years. In 1964 Paolo Scheggi held his fourth solo exhibition, his first abroad, at the Smith Gallery in Brussels and made contact with the Zero group of artists. The years 1966 and 1967 were characterised by travel and international exhibitions, stopping at New York, London, Kentucky, Indianapolis, Baltimore, Buenos Aires, Copenhagen, and Stockholm. After this, Paolo Scheggi also turned his hand to the art of theatre, architecture and performance. He exhibited his "Intersuperfici curve" in Naples in 1969; in the accompanying publication, Scheggi presented his entire oeuvre, from the first "Intersuperfici" to the "Inter-ena-cubi".
In January 2013, his widow Franca Scheggi Dall'Acqua founded the "Associazione Paolo Scheggi" in Milan, paying tribute to the work of the artist who died at a young age in Rome on 26 June 1971. After Franca's death in 2020, their daughter Cosima Ondosa Serenissima took over the Associazione's programme. The art and auction market pays particularly high tribute to the works of the versatile artist Paolo Scheggi.