Background
Giuseppe Pinot-Gallizio was born on February 12, 1902 in Cuneo, Piemonte, Italy.
Giuseppe Pinot-Gallizio was born on February 12, 1902 in Cuneo, Piemonte, Italy.
Giuseppe Pinot-Gallizio was originally trained as a chemist in Alba.
Guiseppe started his career as an independent Left councilman and a chemist. In 1955, he met a Danish painter Asger Jorn, with whom he co-founded the Experimental Laboratory of the Imaginist Bauhaus in Alba, which was part of the International Movement for an Imaginist Bauhaus, in opposition to the return to productivism by others in the Bauhaus school, in particular, Max Bill. It was held in Pinot-Gallizio's studio, a monastery from the seventeenth century, and was attended by such artists as Enrico Baj who experimented with nuclear painting techniques, Walter Olmo, who experimented with musical interventions, Ettore Sottsass, Elena Verrone, and Piero Simondo.
Pinot-Gallizio drew from his background as a chemist in developing new painting techniques. In 1956 he, along with Jorn, organized the First World Congress of Free Artists, at which a representative from the Lettrist International spoke, foreshadowing the foundation of the Situationist International in 1957 by members of both groups, including Pinot-Gallizio. At that conference, the Italian artists withdrew from the Laboratory, and after the formation of the Situationist International only Pinot-Gallizio and his son, Giors Melanotte, remained. He helped to make the Situationist International known in the art world with an exhibition in Paris in 1959. He left the Situationist International in 1960 as it became focused on political, rather than artistic, action. Guiseppe died in Alba on February 13, 1964, and the laboratory continued its work until his death.
Nocturnal Flowers
Drunkenness in Verdun
Abolition of Alienated Labor (made in collaboration with Guy Debord)
Industrial Painting
Collective Operation (made in collaboration with Asger Jorn and Constant)
Industrial Painting
Untitled
Rotolo de pittura industriale
Peggy's Bunch
The Siren and the Pirate
The handle of the sweet fish
Industrial Painting
The Extinguished Spider
Untitled
Quotes from others about the person
In this collapse of the division of labor between artist and scientist, Gallizio emerged as a sort of modern-day alchemist.
Giuseppe Pinot-Gallizio had a son Giors Melanotte.