Concetto Pozzati (Vò di Padova - Italy, 1935 - Bologna - Italy, 2017).

A leading figure in the second half of the 1950s of Nouvelle Figuration, Concetto Pozzati subsequently became one of the major representatives of Italian and European Pop Art. From the 1960s onwards, his language, made up of continuous mixes, contaminations and cultural crossovers, became increasingly individual and recognisable.
Pozzati is always critical and pungent and his work requires a slow reading that deliberately alerts intrigue and questioning. Famous for his pictorial cycles, among the most evocative are Torture (2004), in which the artist himself declares that it is no longer the time for irony and desecration, but the time for tragedy, and De-Posizioni (2006), in which he places a "body" in the painting in an unusual place, in an "other" place that he places in different "positions" as if it were a removal of intentional theatricality.

He took part in major international events, including: Venice Biennials in 1964-'72-'82-'07, Sao Paulo Biennial in 1963 and Tokyo Biennial in '63, documenta in Kassel in '64, Paris Biennial in '69, as well as Italian exhibitions in Mexico City, Vienna, Barcelona, Chicago, Paris, London, Kyoto, Frankfurt, Berlin, Marseilles.