Piero Ruggeri

PIERO RUGGERI (Turin, Italy, 1930 - Avigliana, Italy, 2009).
"Al roch", 1998.
Oil on canvas.
Signed in the upper right corner. Signed, dated and titled on the back.
Measurements: 60 x 73,5 cm.
Piero Ruggeri shows us a work in which the colour red has a pictorial treatment full of internal restlessness, with a vigorous and expansive force.
Piero Ruggeri trained in Turin, where he graduated from a painting course at the Academy of Fine Arts in 1956. Throughout his career as an artist, he exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Italy, Austria, Switzerland, USA, Belgium, Brazil, France, Russia, Australia and Egypt. Solo exhibitions include the "anthology" at the Palazzo dei Diamanti in Ferrara in 1984, the Villa Reale in Monza in 1985 and the Circle of Artists in Turin in 1986. From 1963 to 1985 he taught figure painting at the Turin School of Art. He participated in numerous editions of "Italy-France", the Venice Biennale and the Rome Quadrennial. He won national and international prizes such as Morgan's Paint, Solomon Guggenheim Museum New York, Marzotto, Sao Paulo Brasil, Fiorino, Liss, Villa San Giovanni.