Concetto Pozzati

Concetto Pozzati, cousin of psychologist Luigi Meschieri, first studied in Bologna before continuing his education in Paris at the studio of his uncle Sepo, a renowned international poster artist, where he specialized in advertising graphics.
After debuting as an informal artist, he gravitated toward Pop Art themes. However, Pozzati’s cold, metallic art is more closely associated with Surrealism—simple in its solutions, yet magical and fantastical at the same time. This is evident in works such as Per una impossibile modificazione (1964), in which an arrangement of fruit engages in a paradoxical relationship with its painted double. One of the artist’s best-known pieces, it was exhibited at the 1964 Venice Biennale.
That debut appearance was followed by four more participations in the Biennale—in 1972, 1982, 2007, and 2009. Also notable is Pozzati’s participation in documenta in Kassel in 1964.
Pozzati taught at the Academy of Fine Arts in Urbino, where he later served as director until 1973; he subsequently taught at the academies of Florence and Venice. When he was appointed professor of painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna, his friend Emilio Vedova succeeded him in that role. Among his many students was painter Guglielmo Mari.
He was a member of the Accademia di San Luca. In 1998, he served as artistic director of the Casa del Mantegna in Mantua.