Background
Paolo Scheggi was born on August 19, 1940 in Settignano, Toscana, Italy.
Paolo Scheggi was born on August 19, 1940 in Settignano, Toscana, Italy.
Paolo Scheggi was formed at the State Institute of Art and then at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence.
Within a long decade during 1958 - 1971 the research of Paolo Scheggi went through different fields of knowledge and disciplines, including visual arts, architecture, fashion, poetry, urban and theatrical performances, conceptual and metaphysics reflection. Characterized by a strong interdisciplinary approach, the route taken by Paolo Scheggi may be condensed in the interpretation given by Giovanni Maria Accame, ‘from the exhibition of the project to project of the exhibition.’ In 1960 he founded the magazine of art and literature "Il Misinteso."
Since 1961, he had a vibrant collaborative relationship with Germana Marucelli for whom he redesigned a tailoring studio, inaugurated with a parade of optical dresses in the spring of 1965 in Milan. Soon, he encountered new research in the Lombard capital, attending the group around Azimuth and the first exponents of Arte Programmata. In 1964, Carlo Belloli ascribed Scheggi among the forty-four protagonists of Visualità Strutturata. Furthermore, in 1965, Scheggi was included by Dorfles among the members of the Pittura Oggetto and in the same year he joined the movement Nove Tendencije and developed international contacts, especially in Northern Europe, where he exhibited in numerous occasions and participated in group exhibitions as a member of the groups Zero and Nul.
In 1964, Scheggi’s research undertook an architectural and environmental direction that was fundamental for his artistic development. Since then, Scheggi worked with Nizzoli Associates and Bruno Munari and created the Intercamera plastica in 1966 which was presented in Milan at the Galleria del Naviglio in January 1967. From 1968, he opened his investigation towards theatre and performing arts, addressing the overcoming of the traditional space of the stage and the gallery and extending it into the city.
During the last two years of his life, Paolo worked on a conceptual research that has culminated in the "Sette spazi recursivi autopunitivi" that was never realized, and the "Ondosa environment", yet to be investigated in their complexity. He also took part in the Venice Biennale in 1966, and in 1972, 1976, 1986 posthumously, Scheggi exhibited in some of the major artistic events of the time in Paris, Buenos Aires, New York, Hamburg, Dusseldorf, and Zagreb. Scheggi died in 1971 in Rome, Italy at the age of 31.
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Scheggi went beyond the experiences of Cubism, of the European informal style, adding references to categories of thought, which became elements of creative language: mass – void, inside - outside, addition - subtraction, and affirmation - negation.
Paolo was briefly associated with the Nul and Zero groups and the New Tendencies movement, all of which reacted against the dominant postwar expressionist movements.
