This is a controversial character of Italian modern art, probably one of the best cartoonists of all times. His name was Andrea Pazienza, and his life was very short (32 years) but incredibly intense, not only by events that encouraged her, but also due to the way he lived his life: in a totalizing, absolute and extreme way. Andrea Pazienza was defined several times as “the greatest living artist,” a claim which is a bit presumptuous, especially if his work is not known. Then, when you open and read one of his comics , one realizes that the level of his drawings allows this presumption without fear: the strength of the colors he uses and his incredible ability to create stories that the – literally – jumps out of the pages and become true moments that we live in our daily life.

Andrea Pazienza was born in San Benedetto del Tronto on May 23, 1956. His father, an art education professor conveyed in him from an early age, his love for art, teaching him to look. From a very young age, Andrea left traces of his genius, creating set designs for a few shows at the Teatro Verdi in San Severo and, since 1973, performing solo and in group exhibitions. He achieved great success thanks to the first comic book he published, “The Extraordinary Adventures of Penthotal” a story inspired by his years at the University of Bologna (where he studied at the DAMS – Disciplines of Art, Music and entertainment, a career he left when he was only two assignments away from his degree). He was also devoted to painting, another art that he developed from an early age, creating a symbolic picture representing his suicide when he was only 15 years. In 1984, the darker side of his artistic production is revealed publicly: the relationship with heroin and a drug dependence. It was those that led him to his death: June 16, 1988, at his home in Montepulciano (Tuscany), Andrea Pazienza died of a heroin overdose. It was never clear whether it was suicide or an overdose taken without the will to die.

Nonetheless, Pazienza leaves an unparalleled legacy in the world of Italian comics. The exhibition “Pazienza un corno!” Organized by the Gallery Ca ‘di Fra’ in collaboration with the Little Nemo Art Gallery of Turin aims to bring together a number of very significant works of the artist. During the entire month of January you can visit the exhibition in the ??Via Carlo Farini 2 (Milan) space . The opening hours of the Space is between 10 and 15 to 13hs 19hs, Monday to Saturday. Until January 28, 2012 (closed for Christmas Holidays until January 9).

For more information: http://sbamcomics.it/eventi/eventi-pazienza-un-corno-alla-ca-di-fra.

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Translated by: Marc
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