Pino Procopio (1954) - IL CADETTO

Fine Art Giclée "Il cadetto" - Original artwork on high-quality paper - Dry stamp of the Artist Studio - Authenticity hologram – Certificate of authenticity provided Pino Procopio, (Guardavalle, June 16, 1954), is an Italian painter, sculptor and illustrator, exponent of figurativism. Artistic studies began in Catanzaro, but completed in Rome. In 1982 he graduated in architecture from Sapienza University of Rome. In 1980, the art center “La Bitta” hosted his first solo show. After two years spent in Verona, in 1985 he settled in Giulianova, in Abruzzo. In 2001, the “Fondazione Italiana Stauròs Onlus” invited him to exhibit at the Staurós Museum of Contemporary Sacred Art in San Gabriele. The work “Father, into your hands I commend my spirit” is today a permanent piece of the museum's collection. The following year, in 2002, he created the painting for the poster of the “World Book and Copyright Day”, sponsored by UNESCO. The State Monopolies commissioned him, in 2003, to paint the image to be affixed to the ticket of the European Lottery and in 2004 he was commissioned to create the painting that would be placed on the ticket of the Italy Lottery. In 2005 the Ministry of Communications promoted in Rome an exhibition of his that tells the evolution of the Italian postal service in 100 years of history. In 2007 the Pescara Committee of the “Dante Alighieri Society” awarded him the “Dante Alighieri 2007” prize in the Arts section. The following year, in 2008, in Rome, the Boncompagni-Ludovisi Museum of the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art hosted “Ulysses, scenes of a journey”, a solo exhibition dedicated to him. In 2015, in Rome, at the National Gallery of Modern Art (GNAM), he participated in the collective exhibition, Corporate Art, concerning the close link between industrial commissioning and art. In 2017, at the Palazzo dello Sport in Teramo, with the sponsorship of UNESCO and MIUR, the exhibition “Baadaye, Pinocchio d’Africa” took place, a revisiting of the Pinocchio tale in a modern key, linked to the drama of immigration. In 2019, the Municipality of Ascoli Piceno commissioned him to realize the Palio della Quintana of the historic August joust. Also in 2019, he exhibited in two solo shows, at the Palazzo del Pegaso of the Tuscany Region in Florence and subsequently at the Museum of the Peoples of Abruzzo in Pescara. In 2020, he exhibited at the Palace of the Captains of the People of Ascoli Piceno, a solo show focused on the chivalric theme of the Quintana, with sponsorship of the Municipality of Ascoli Piceno, Ascoli Musei and the Marche Region. In 2021, with the sponsorship of the Marche Region and the Municipality of Recanati, he was invited to exhibit in a solo show focused on the figure of the poet Giacomo Leopardi, in the main hall of the town hall of Recanati. In 2022, he exhibited at the Salt Warehouses (Magazzini del Sale) of the municipality of Siena in a solo exhibition, sponsored by the Tuscany Region.

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