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Ugo La Pietra

Researcher in the communication system

Biography

Born in 1938, he lives and works in Milan.

Since 1960 he has defined himself as a researcher within the communication and visual arts systems, moving simultaneously in the territories of art and design. A tireless experimenter, he experienced different currents (from Scenic Painting to conceptual art, from Narrative Art to artists’ cinema) always making use of multiple artistic media and carrying out research that took form in the theory of the “Unbalancing System” – an autonomous expression within the Radical Design movement – and in important sociological themes such as “The Telematic House” (MoMA New York, 1972 – Milan Trade Fair, 1983), “Real Space and Virtual Space” (Milan Triennale 1979, 1992), “The Neo-Eclectic House” (Abitare il Tempo, 1990).

He has exhibited his work both in Italy and abroad, and has organized several exhibitions at Milan Triennale, Venice Biennale, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Lyon, the FRAC in Orléans, and the Museum of Ceramics in Faenza.

He critically supports the human and territorial component of art and design

with works and objects as well as theoretical, didactic and publishing activities.

Works of art for Art For Nature

EN in esclusiva Art for Nature

Artistic philosophy

“To inhabit is to feel at ease anywhere”

this slogan summarises Ugo la Pietra’s working attitude ever since the early 1960s. Through his works, research and mega-works he has analysed the relationship between human beings and their environment.

The privileged subject of his research is the urban environment with its contradictions and voids involving the human requirements underlying the very concept of inhabiting. This means searching for those elements through which both the domestic and communal space can integrate with each other, a sort of “inside/outside” dialogue that might allow human beings to take back their own environment well beyond any imposed schemes”.

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