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Sergio Lombardo

Sergio Lombardo

SERGIO LOMBARDO Roma, 1939
Born 1939, Rome, Italy, where he lives and works.
At a very young age, Sergio Lombardo abandoned his studies in law and psychology to pursue his passion for art. His first body of work, produced between 1958 and 1961, was a series of paintings made of paper squares pasted on canvas in the shape of a grid, coated with layers of monochrome enamel. Lombardo opposed the notion of the artist-as-genius, and sought to produce works that were non-artistic, drained of any subjective mark. From 1961 he grew closer to the Scuola di Piazza del Popolo (Piazza del Popolo School, also known as the Pop artists of Rome), composed of Mario Schifano, Cesare Tacchi and Renato Mambor among others, participating in some of the most important group exhibitions at the Galleria Tartaruga.