Angelo Tozzi Biography
Angelo Tozzi was born in 1960 in Latina, where he lives and works. Graduated in architecture, he began painting in 1970 and experimented with all the main painting techniques. Very early he became acquainted with the works of Picasso, Mirò, Pollock and immediately after with abstractionism and informal art. He began studying the works of Lucio Fontana, Burri and all the great masters of informalism and conceptual minimalism. From that moment he understands that the artistic path he will follow will be that. In 1980 he was 1st place for abstract art at the 1st International LatinArte Prize. Until the mid-80s he participated in numerous group exhibitions, but then felt the need to stop exhibiting his works to dedicate himself to research based on removal which would lead him to work with very few signs and an 'almost absence' of colour. After years in which he produced works only for himself, in 2003 he decided to return to exhibiting and proposed his latest works at the Lydia Palumbo Scalzi Gallery which, after various group exhibitions, dedicated a solo exhibition to him in 2009. In 2005 he had his first solo exhibition in Sperlonga and, again in 2005, a collective exhibition in the Sala L'Agostiniana in Rome, where he exhibited some sculptures made of paper. In 2010, through the Lydia Palumbo Scalzi Gallery, he participated in a collective exhibition at the Pietro Canonica Museum in Rome with artists such as Jannis Kounellis, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Matteo Basilè and others. Since 2011 he has been part of the artists of the Imagine Contemporary Art Gallery in Città di Castello (PG). At the same time, as a sculptor, since 2007 he has dedicated 'The secret rooms' and 'The secret gardens' to historical and artistic personalities. For these sculptures, always in the name of minimalism, he uses openable boxes for 'The rooms' and parallelepipeds for 'The gardens', made of wood with materials such as brass, copper, marble and various objects.
