Sergio Lombardo
(Rome, 1939)
Sergio Lombardo, born in Rome in 1939, after taking classical and law studies devotes himself to artistic research and experimental psychology of aesthetics. He is the founder of the Eventualist Theory, which is an artistic and theoretical movement based on experimental methods. his artistic work career can be grouped into different periods, discontinuous between each other. The first series by Sergio Lombardo in the late ‘50s is Monocromi: paper tile glued on canvas and painted with enamel. Best known is the Gesti Tipici series, presented in 1963 at La Tartaruga Gallery in Rome, in which Sergio Lombardo depicts the most significant political figures of his time, first in black and white and then in color, highlighting their most emblematic nature. Another important cycle of the second half of the ‘60s is Supercomponibili. This series includes minimal wooden modules covered with fòrmica - plastic laminate - with rigid or wavy borders, to be combined or disposed of freely by the public. As an artist, Sergio Lombardo has been part of the international historical Avant-garde and artistic movement born in Rome in the ‘60s named Scuola di Piazza del Popolo. In 1970 the artist obtained a personal exhibition room at the Biennale of Venice, where he exhibited again in 1993, 2009, 2013. In 1979 he became the director of the journal named “Psicologia dell’Arte“. Since 1980 he started complex research of Stochastic Painting based on mathematical algorithms and randomization programs: Stochastic Painting Tan, Sat and Ran, Tiling, Quilting. He has been a member of the Professional Association of Psychologists of Lazio since 1992. In 2015 he was appointed Master Academic Emeritus by the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome.
Among his solo exhibitions, we can mention: Serie dei Gesti Tipici (Galleria La Tartaruga, Rome, 1963); Exhibition of Contemporary Italian Art (Museo Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Tokyo,1967); Supercomponibili, Aste, Punti Extra, Scatole (Galleria La Salita, Rome, 1968); Young Italians (Jewish Museum, New York,1968); Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris, 1969-1995); Biennale di Venezia (Venice,1970-1993-2009-2013); Four Italian Masters of Contemporary Art: Cucchi, Lombardo, Mauri, Mochetti (Italian Academy, London, 1995); Sergio Lombardo, Galleria Marchetti (Rome, 1998); Supercomponibili, Mappe, Gesti Tipici, (Fondazione Mudima, Milan, 2004); The EY Exhibition: The World Goes Pop (Tate Modern, London, 2015).
